Dear DFA members, We are sharing this letter-writing initiative begun by faculty, students, and staff to bring attention to problems with UCPath in case you are interested in signing on. Please consider signing this letter online, and sharing the link…
Dear Davis Faculty Association members, Well, we made it through another tough and trying year. We started back to campus with a combination of in-person masked instruction, remote instruction, and other hybrid combinations. Getting our vaccinations, maybe dealing with anti-vaxxers…
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…
The Davis Enterprise has coverage of the UC-AFT picket and rallies that quotes DFA co-chair Jesse Drew’s rally speech: “It is no secret that employers in all industries have pushed workers into jobs with little security, no benefits, low wages…
The coming weeks are key for pressuring UCOP to settle the contract with UC-AFT in order to avert major disruption on our campuses. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE SIGN THE SOLIDARITY PLEDGE THAT EXPRESSES SENATE FACULTY OPPOSITION…
The Davis Faculty Association is the Davis chapter of the systemwide Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA). Below is an important letter that we are forwarding on their behalf: Dear UC Senate Faculty Colleagues, We are UC Senate faculty and…
Welcome to a new Academic Year. We were all hoping for a “return to normalcy” but it appears that the delta variant has thrown a substantial monkey-wrench into that aspiration. In a coming email we will ask for your views…
Like many of you, we are very concerned about the issues we face as faculty members of a large public university. In recent years, we have witnessed the deterioration of our universities across the US as funding has been cut,…
The California Conference of the American Association of University Professors is conducting its annual meeting online this year, and all who wish to attend can do so for free, wherever you may be. The DFA co-chairs encourage our members to…
The youngest campuses in the UC system, especially Riverside and Merced, are also the most poorly resourced in the University system. Their youth means they have the greatest difficulty in attracting support from donors. Their newness also means less reputation…
