Deans Survey Results
The Davis Faculty Association conducted a survey asking faculty to rate their deans. The survey ran from May 17 until June 4 and we had 87 respondents during that time. In summary, a majority of the faculty were satisfied with…
Category UC Administration
Survey of Deans
(The DFA is no longer collecting responses in our survey of Deans.) We encourage you to send the above link to all your colleagues in your department, and to other colleagues who may not be DFA members. Our opinions will…
The Daily Californian: Salaries Responsible for Budget Gap
The Daily Californian has an article today by Travis Donselman titled “Salaries Responsible for Budget Gap” The full article is at: An excerpt follows: The amount of the University budget gap is half of the $1 billion or so…
News item regarding administrative cuts at UNC
A DFA member came across these news items about efforts by Erskine Bowles at UNC to rein in administrative bloat. Our member thought that our Chancellor might also be interested in this issue so we are forwarding the email to…
Executive VC Lavernia’s Response to DFA’s Open Letter
The DFA received the following reply in response to the open letter the DFA board mailed last week (the open letter is available online at ): Dear Colleagues: In response to your letter to the Chancellor, we want to thank…
Open Letter to UCD from DFA regarding Faculty Input Into Cuts
The DFA sent the following letter to the UCD Chancellor and Deans today: —————————————– April 6, 2010 Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616 Dear Chancellor Katehi, The principle of shared governance has been…