Dear UC Davis colleagues, In recent weeks, it has become clear we are facing an unprecedented attack on our universities, and that the Trump Administration is using every lever to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy entire sectors of higher education. The…
Dear colleagues: We are currently experiencing an unprecedented attack on higher education. The Trump and Musk administration has proposed massive cuts to critical funding that universities receive from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment…
The Davis Faculty Association participated in the UC-wide Unfair Labor Practice charges filed by the Council of UC Faculty Associations, the DFA, and six other FA chapters on September 19th. Faculty rights to teach, speak, and assemble are fundamental to…
Dear Davis Faculty Association members, I sincerely hope that your quarter is going well. I hope that you are successfully navigating the competing demands of undergraduate and graduate teaching, research and scholarly mentorship, and university, professional, and community service. More…
Dear Davis Faculty Association members, Well, we made it through another tough and trying year. We started back to campus with a combination of in-person masked instruction, remote instruction, and other hybrid combinations. Getting our vaccinations, maybe dealing with anti-vaxxers…
Dear DFA Members, We wanted to catch you up about an exciting new effort to improve higher education funding and governance at the national level, Higher Ed Labor United, or HELU, for short: Last Fall, CUCFA (the systemwide organization…
