The executive board of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, of which the DFA is the Davis chapter, sent the following response to UC President Drake regarding his proposal to curtail campus operations for five or more additional days in…
Dear Chancellor May and Provost Croughan, We were quite surprised to read in the Davis Enterprise about the proposed elimination of the Physical Education Program. There are three aspects to this that give pause. First, many thousands of students participate…
It might not be widely known in the UCD community that a campus Police Accountability Board (PAB) was established at UCD in 2014 to investigate complaints concerning campus police. We attach a work in progress reviewing the functioning of the…
Prepared on behalf of the DFA Board by Joe Kiskis and Eric Hays Brutally simplified version: As it stands now, UC will receive from the State either a 1.27% increase or a 10.9% budget cut depending on whether California receives…
The current crisis has brought into focus the extreme precarity that contingent faculty live with year in and year out. UC-AFT (the union that represents UC lecturers) is circulating a pledge that asks ladder rank faculty at the University of…
Dear Davis Faculty Association Members, The following information was sent to American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as one of their regular newsletters to members. If you are not already a member of the AAUP, the DFA participates in the…
Dear DFA members: Campuses across the country are moving to remote teaching. Dozens of campuses are postponing the start of spring quarter to give faculty, students and staff time to make that move. The Council of UC Faculty Associations has…
Dear President Napolitano, The Faculty Organizing Group at UCSC has just issued a very important letter to UCSC’s EVC Kletzer (copied below) in which they call for an act of “empathy, compassion, and responsibility“ in reinstating the 80 graduate students…
Tuesday is election day. Perhaps you would be interested in spending a few minutes at the start of class the next couple days reminding your students to vote? Here’s some information you could share with them: The polls are open…
Dear DFA members, Due to the escalating crisis stemming from the grad student strike at UCSC, the Davis Faculty Association board signed on to the following statement issued by the Council of UC Faculty Associations:
