As you may remember from our March Newsletter, a recent revision of the APM Section devoted to the Cooperative Extension Specialists title series changed their salary scale linkage from the Agronomists series to the Professional Research series. As a consequence,…

The FAs have been following a number of issues in the Legislature, as we indicated in our March Newsletter: Long-Term Funding for UC — AB 1415 At UC’s request, Assembly Speaker Cruz Bustamante (D, Fresno) introduced AB 1415 which would…

The University of California is entering into a very difficult and dangerous period in its relationship with the State of California. If UC is going to survive as the premiere institution that we all value, a mobilized faculty and links…

On January 22 the DFA Board and Linda Wallace, the Director of Advocacy  Programs for the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, met on campus with our District’s Senator, Maurice Johannessen (R, Redding).  [The DFA and the  Alumni Association have jointly sponsored…

In 1993, SB 506 (Hayden, D, Los Angeles) expressed the Legislature’s intent that UC provide a number of courses sufficient to permit normal progress to a baccalaureate degree. The statute requires the Legislative Analyst to review and analyze the annual…

As you probably know, there are several steps in the UC budget process. First is the Regents’ proposal in November, then the Governor’s proposal in January, then the Legislative Analyst’s recommendations in February, then discussion in budget hearings during the…

There is both good news and bad news for UC and its faculty members in  the form of a public opinion poll of Californians taken by the California  Higher Education Policy Center and reported in the Winter, 1997 issue of …

Toward the end of 1996, one of our members from the College of  Agricultural and Environmental Sciences asked the DFA to get into the  current debate concerning the status of the approximately 90 Cooperative  Extension Specialists who are housed in…