Recruiting poster
Ian Kennedy has produced a recruiting poster for our organization. You may have already seen it around campus, as a few of the DFA board members have already started putting some up. We’d love your help spreading the word about…
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Outrageous Sac Bee editorial
Over the weekend the Sacramento Bee wrote an editorial outrageously insulting to faculty. The original editorial is available online at: It has since been republished in slightly modified form at: The Bee had earlier written a news article…
Teach in, not walkout
by Ian Kennedy The imposition of furloughs on non-teaching days, on top of budget cuts and other draconian reductions in the operation of our university, demand a reasoned, effective, and broadly supported response from the faculty in consultation with the…
AAUP Newsletter to UC faculty
The following message was written by CUCFA’s managing director Craig Flanery: The AAUP Newsletter below about the UCs went out to all UC faculty today — or at least those for whom we have emails, which is about 90-95% I…
Santa Cruz Academic Senate response to Pitts on furlough restrictions
Faculty dissatisfaction with the furlough policy laid out by Interim Provost Lawrence Pitts continues. The following is a strong objection from the UCSC Academic Senate essentially asking UCSC’s Chancellor to ignore the Pitts letter: —————- August 27, 2009 Chancellor George…
Press Release from AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress
Plenty of familiar themes in this press release from AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress: ———————– AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress (CBC) Executive Committee Issues Resolution For Release: August 18, 2009 – Howard Bunsis, AAUP CBC Chair – Washington, D.C. Turn it around;…
Response from Yudof to our letter re: the Gould Commission
We received a response from UC President Yudof to the letter CUCFA sent August 10th. The full text of the CUCFA letter was sent to the DFA members earlier and is available at Below, please find the text of…
CUCFA input on the Gould Commission on the future of UC
As you know, a commission on the Future of UC has been instituted by Chair Gould of the Regents. Its membership has caused some real concern. CUCFA and Faculty Associations have offered the following input to Gould and Yudof: August…
Davis Division Academic Senate Furlough Survey
We encourage our members to add their comments to both the DFA and the Davis Senate web sites in regard to furlough implementation plans. The DFA site is also open to the FA members from other campuses and we plan…