UCSB Faculty Association member Chris Newfield has an article on his blog today that clarifies recent information and debate about the state of UC’s pension fund, including a recent report produced by Stanford graduate students at the request of Governor…
The Berkeley Faculty Association sent the following concise and useful review of the state of the UC pension fund to all Berkeley faculty. DFA chair Ian Kennedy has asked me to forward this to DFA members: ——————————- Dear Berkeley Faculty…
There have been several articles of likely interest to DFA members recently. First, Ian Kennedy points out an article in the Los Angeles Times about proposals to change how tenure is awarded. Here is an excerpt: “The leader of the…
A member mailed us the following article about immediate furloughs and cuts at the University of Illinois. Full article is at: An excerpt follows: …The cuts affect employees on all three Illinois campuses, in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. Ikenberry…
The Sacramento Bee reported that the Governor is considering providing State funding to CalPERS, in excess of the amount requested by CalPERS itself. See The DFA has written a letter, under the CUCFA letterhead and signature, to the Governor protesting…
Several UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter to UC Regent’s Chair Russell Gould. ———————— Dec. 1, 2009 Russell Gould, Chair UC Regents Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff 1111 Franklin Street, 12th floor Oakland, CA 94607 Dear…
