We’re keeping up the fight for the future of higher education and academic freedom in this new year. Please join our Member Meeting and Social Hour Thursday Feb. 5, 4-6 pm at Cecil’s Lounge in the UCSD Faculty Club. Here’s the meeting agenda: Thursday Feb. 5, 4-6 pm UCSD Faculty Club 4-4:30pm: Member Meeting General […]
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It’s Your Turn to Fight for the UC!
URGENT: send written or sign up for verbal comment at the Regents Meeting this coming week! Instructions for how to do so and some sample comments and talking points are linked here.
Save Our Science Action: Monday 8/18/2025 in Sacramento
Monday, August 18, 2025, approximately 20 people including faculty, staff, and students had a rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento calling for state funding to cover the federal research grants suspended by the Trump administration. Video of most of the speeches are available here. We met with California Assembly members Sade Elhawary, Isaac Bryan, […]
Important Systemwide Assembly meeting 1/17/2025
We wish to inform you of a special meeting of the systemwide Academic Senate General Assembly to be held TOMORROW, January 17, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The SDFA board encourages you to attend. You can register for the Zoom here and join the Zoom here. The systemwide Academic Senate Chair, Steve W. Cheung, has released […]
Updating the SDFA Bylaws
It has been well over 15 years since our bylaws have been updated, and a good number of things have changed since then. So we thought we would revise our bylaws to sharpen our stated mission, clarify the process for electing board members, and adopt new technologies (like electronic voting). We will need the approval […]