If you have the opportunity, in the next few days, it might be kind to remind students, some of whom have only just come of voting age, that the deadline to register to vote is Monday. This does not have…
Dear DFA members, The Davis Faculty Association, acting in association with CUCFA (the Council of University of California Faculty Associations), has formally endorsed SB 259, a bill currently awaiting Governor Brown’s signature. This bill guarantees Graduate Student Researchers the right…
A signature goal of Governor Brown has been public employee pension reform. This is conceptually and politically linked to his budget initiative. Today the governor and legislative leaders announced a compromise agreement. It is possible that this will be quickly…
A major mobilization is coming March 1 – 5, 2012, to put pressure on the Governor and legislature to renew support for public education in California and for raising taxes to restore the state funding that UC, the CSUs, the…
Yesterday, the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy released a report titled “Consequences of Neglect: Performance Trends in California Higher Education.” The opening paragraph of the report’s executive summary reads: California lawmakers have found it increasingly difficult to protect…
Here is an excerpt from an article in yesterday’s New York Times titled “California Cuts Weigh Heavily on Its Colleges”: The compromise to close the state’s huge budget gap included cuts to state agencies of all kinds, but none were…
