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…
It might not be widely known in the UCD community that a campus Police Accountability Board (PAB) was established at UCD in 2014 to investigate complaints concerning campus police. We attach a work in progress reviewing the functioning of the…
Dear Davis Faculty Association Members, The following information was sent to American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as one of their regular newsletters to members. If you are not already a member of the AAUP, the DFA participates in the…
Dear DFA members: Campuses across the country are moving to remote teaching. Dozens of campuses are postponing the start of spring quarter to give faculty, students and staff time to make that move. The Council of UC Faculty Associations has…
Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility“ in reinstating the 80 graduate students…
Dear DFA members, Due to the escalating crisis stemming from the grad student strike at UCSC, the Davis Faculty Association board signed on to the following statement issued by the Council of UC Faculty Associations:
