Important Changes to Health Care Plans in 2014
This is a post to alert you to an issue that will affect all members of the UCD faculty and staff. As you may have seen in an email from UCOP, UC has shifted the health insurance structures for all…
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Follow-up on healthcare facilitators: funding restored
Last month we notified you of an ongoing issue regarding funding to support healthcare and retirement counseling programs. The lobbying by the senate, retirees, and FA’s was successful: Dwaine Duckett, UCOP VP of Human Resources, has announced that UCOP will…
An update on management bloat at UC
UCB professor emeritus Charles Schwartz has updated his data on UC management bloat. He finds “continuing outsized growth of the management cadre (defined as the employees classified in Senior Management Group and Management & Senior Professionals): their numbers grew by…
New York Times article about Jerry Brown and UC
An interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about Jerry Brown’s approach to UC: Link to full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/education/jerry-brown-looks-at-reshaping-higher-education-in-california.html?hp&_r=0 Excerpt: “Governor Brown holds a position on the board of trustees for both Cal State and UC. Since November, he has…
UCD’s healthcare facilitator program threatened
Members of the Davis Faculty Association should be aware of an ongoing issue regarding funding to support healthcare and retirement counseling programs on this campus. The basic facts of the current situation are as follows. The Office of the President…
New chief lawyer at UCD: an open letter to the Chancellor from the Davis Faculty Association
The following letter was sent today from Davis Faculty Association Chair Scott Shershow to UCD Chancellor Linda Katehi: ——————- Chancellor Linda Katehi Fifth floor, Mrak Hall University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 via e-mail Dear Chancellor…