The board of the Davis Faculty Association has voted to endorse the strike called for by Occupy Cal to occur on November 15. After a mass rally and march of over 3,000 people, and repeated police assaults on the encampment,…
Students at UC Davis and college campuses around the state are planning to walk out tomorrow, at least long enough to hold noon information meetings leading to protests planned at next week’s UC Regents’ meeting. Although such activities on the…
The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by…
Before leaving office, Gov. Schwarzenegger nominated David Crane to be a UC Regent. Regents are supposed to be selected through consultation with an 11 member advisory committee and approved by the Legislature. Our Sacramento contacts told us the nomination was…
The following link is an action item. It asks Governor Brown not to appoint David Crane to the UC Regents and it supports Senator Leland Yee’s opposition to Crane’s confirmation as Regent. Appreciate that such appointments are for 12 years,…
It has been another busy year for the Davis Faculty Association and our affiliate CUCFA (Council of UC Faculty Associations). In recent years we have made an effort to communicate with our members more frequently. Toward that end, we rebuilt…
