The DFA board reiterates its support of the Occupy Cal call for a strike on November 15 to protest the use of police brutality to stifle the important debate about the current course of the University. While we believe the…
The board of the Davis Faculty Association has voted to endorse the strike called for by Occupy Cal to occur on November 15. After a mass rally and march of over 3,000 people, and repeated police assaults on the encampment,…
Students at UC Davis and college campuses around the state are planning to walk out tomorrow, at least long enough to hold noon information meetings leading to protests planned at next week’s UC Regents’ meeting. Although such activities on the…
The social movement known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is growing and raising issues of direct relevance to the faculty, students and staff of the University of California, including contracting opportunities and increasing debt loads for our students created by…
The Faculty Association leaders would like to draw your attention to proposed APM 668, Negotiated Salary Program: The origins of this proposed addition to that Academic Personnel Manual are in the Joint Senate-Administration Compensation Plan Steering Committee June…
Welcome back to school. This year looks like another difficult one for those of us trying to defend public, accessible, quality education. Public higher education is under attack all over the country: Texas, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and right here in…
The UC Regents are meeting this week. The agenda is available at: Streaming audio of the meeting will also be available at the above URL. Items of note: There are public comment periods at 8:30 am on Wednesday and…
It is time to renew the DFA board. In accordance with DFA bylaws, a nominating committee has selected a slate of candidates to fill DFA board positions as listed below with the following code: C – continuing; R – renewing…
Yesterday, the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy released a report titled “Consequences of Neglect: Performance Trends in California Higher Education.” The opening paragraph of the report’s executive summary reads: California lawmakers have found it increasingly difficult to protect…
Here is an excerpt from an article in yesterday’s New York Times titled “California Cuts Weigh Heavily on Its Colleges”: The compromise to close the state’s huge budget gap included cuts to state agencies of all kinds, but none were…
