Currently Wisconsin’s financial problems may be viewed to be as dire as California’s on a relative scale. Depending on what is included as debt, our state tax-supported debt is currently ~$1,800 to ~$9,800 per person compared to ~$1,500 to ~7,600…
The Davis Faculty Association and Davis Divisions of the Academic Senate and of the Academic Federation have extended the nomination period for The Charles P. Nash Prize to 5:00 PM, Friday, February 18, 2011. The Charles P. Nash Prize is…
The Sacramento Bee published an excellent rebuttal, written by faculty association members, to the demand by 36 senior UC administrators for higher retirement. The link to the Bee’s online version of the article is: Here’s an excerpt: Recently the…
At a recent meeting of the Davis Faculty Association Board, a number of hard decisions were made about the scope and direction of future activities. This has been a very active year for the DFA as well as the other…
The following is a press release that the Council of UC Faculty Associations distributed to media outlets: At their Special Meeting on Monday, December 13, the Regents of the University of California will be making decisions on two significant issues…
The UC Regents will be meeting on December 13th and voting on changes to post employment benefits as well as on recommendations from the UC Commission on the Future. The relevant portions of the Regents agenda are: UC Commission on…
The UC Regents are meeting this week. Issues to be discussed include a proposal to raise student fees yet again, this time by 8%. The student fee hike is scheduled to be discussed Thursday at 8:50 am. The Regent’s will…
According to Academic Senate Chair Dan Simmons, UC President Yudof has decided what his post employment recommendation to the Regents will be: over many objections he will recommend a second tier, a variant on option C. The Regents will discuss…
Yesterday, the Council of UC Faculty Associations sent the following letter about proposed changes to post employment benefits to UC President Yudof. When delivered to Yudof, this letter served as a cover letter to a longer report available at: …
The following letter is being distributed to the members of the DFA on behalf of outgoing DFA chair Ian Kennedy: I have had the honor of serving the Davis Faculty Association, first on the Board then as Chair, for quite…
