AAUP’s Financial Crisis FAQs
Here is another quick read to help orient faculty to the current fiscal situation faced by UC faculty and faculty nationwide. This one is from the American Association of University Professors:
Category Faculty Welfare
Further Clarification of the State of UCRP
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…
UCB FA’s Pension Fund Alert
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…
Changing Rules Re: Granting Tenure, and Other News
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…
University of Illinois furloughs
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…
Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger re: funding UCRP
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…