The Board of the San Diego Faculty Association (SDFA) is concerned about the nomination of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as President of the University of California, as well as with the secretive manner in which the Regents of UC arrived at the nomination. Regrettably, the Regents have instructed Secretary Napolitano not to […]
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Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by the Board of the SDFA
The San Diego Faculty Association (SDFA/AAUP) has no official position in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. We recognize that our membership is divided on this issue and that it is beyond the mission and the scope of the Association to articulate an official view. Therefore, the Board will not speak on behalf of its members […]
Professor of Literature Jody Blanco Steps in as Interim President of the SDFA
On October 3rd, the board unanimously approved the selection of Assoc. Prof. John “Jody” Blanco (Literature) as Interim President of the San Diego Faculty Association, while President Ivan Evans (Sociology) takes a hiatus to focus on his research. A message from the outgoing President Ivan Evans: I would like to announce that I have stepped down […]
UCSD Reaches Settlement over Compton Cookout Incidents
The US Department of Justice reported today that UC San Diego has reached a settlement with the Departments of Justice and Education over the racial incidents in February 2010 associated with the now infamous “Compton Cookout“. The settlement arose from an investigation by these Departments over complaints of racial harassment against African-American students on campus, in violation […]
Albert Einstein on Collective Bargaining
Think collective action is outside the realm of science? Albert Einstein didn’t think so. In “Out of My Later Years” (most recent print by Grammercy, 1993), the Noble-prize winning physicist – and founding member of AFT Local 552 at Princeton in 1938 – devotes an entire chapter of this memoir to his thoughts on the […]