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…
There was an interesting article in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle about UC’s losses to indirect costs. Glossed over in the article is the importance of research to the reputation of UC’s faculty and thus the institution itself, or the important…
The UC Commission on the Future met today. They have now released their “First Round of Recommendations from the Working Groups.” The full 150 page PDF can be downloaded from: Here is an excerpt from the Executive Summary: The…
The Legislative Analyst’s Office has just issued the following report: The Master Plan at 50: Assessing California’s Vision for Higher Education Almost 50 years ago, the state of California adopted a visionary plan for higher education that sought to forge…
Here is a new UC Davis course offering that will be all about the future of public higher education. Please note that interested faculty, staff, students, etc. are all welcome to attend: ————————- SOC298/CST298 Winter 2010 Public Higher Ed at…
Ian Kennedy has produced a recruiting poster for our organization. You may have already seen it around campus, as a few of the DFA board members have already started putting some up. We’d love your help spreading the word about…
The following message was written by CUCFA’s managing director Craig Flanery: The AAUP Newsletter below about the UCs went out to all UC faculty today — or at least those for whom we have emails, which is about 90-95% I…
The DFA has nominated Jim Chalfont of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics to the Gould Commission on the Future of UC. We believe that he would an excellent addition to the Commission, given his depth of experience in…
We received a response from UC President Yudof to the letter CUCFA sent August 10th. The full text of the CUCFA letter was sent to the DFA members earlier and is available at Below, please find the text of…
