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…
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…
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…
Stanton Glantz, vice chair of the UC Council of Faculty Associations, has written an Op-Ed that was published in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. The article is online at: and is pasted below: ——————————– Median tax to restore higher education:…
Inside Higher Ed had an article yesterday about the personnel cuts happening here at UC Davis: Also, Academic Senate chair Henry Powell sent a three page letter to Mark Yudof complaining about the lack of faculty input in cuts…
Richard Evans, a UC Davis Cooperative Extension Specialist who wrote a piece about the off scale growth in administrators at UC that was published on CUCFA’s Keep California’s Promise website and who was quoted in the Sacramento Bee article about…
