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…
CUCFA has assembled an analysis of the history of the UC financial problems on a web site. We hope that you will help us disseminate the information. It is also intended to form the basis of a “teach-in” action this…
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…
The DFA has nominated Jim Chalfont of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics to the Gould Commission on the Future of UC. We believe that he would an excellent addition to the Commission, given his depth of experience in…
An article in yesterday’s SF Chronicle about SB 217, a piece of legislation about UC and CSU executive compensation that CUCFA has been tracking all year. The full article is available at: an excerpt is pasted below: Lawmakers kill…
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…
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;…
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…
Texas can see opportunities where California can see only problems. We may have exchanged one Texan for many talented Californians. From: Texas universities should capitalize on California’s budget shortfall The emergency budget deal that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two…
In case you missed it, UC is planning for over $1 billion in capital works by using bond sales. UCOP is not forthcoming on details. From: UC issuing bonds for capital projects The University of California released the preliminary…
