On November 7th, 2011, the California Faculty Association (CFA) Board of Directors and Chapter Presidents voted to authorize a one-day faculty strike at CSU East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills. The strike is aimed at the CSU chancellor, demanding fairness in bargaining over modest raises recommended by two different fact-finding reports. Faculty associations, labor unions and public […]
$49 Can Save the UC
Stanton Glantz, CUCFA member and Professor of Medicine at UCSF has written the following perspective on how just how little it would cost to roll back fees and maintain excellence at the University of California. $49 can save the UC Conventional wisdom says the UC and CSU funding crises is the inevitable result of recession-driven […]
Letter to President Yudof: Selection of UCSD’s Next Chancellor
SDFA President Ivan Evans has written the following letter to President Yudof with specific suggestions on improving community involvement in the selection of UCSD’s next Chancellor. As of November 2nd, the UC Office of the President has provided no response. 19 October 2011 Dear President Yudof: Re: Selection of UCSD’s Next Chancellor In keeping […]
Einstein (brings in grant money!) vs Aristotle (what, no grant money?): which one would you hire (or fire)?
by Ivan Evans, President, UCSD Faculty Association Faculty at UC have long been painfully aware that their salaries lag behind pay scales at “comparable universities” across the country. And so UCOP came up with a remedy: the off-scale salary, which more than 2/3 of UC faculty now earn. The off-scale solution aims to retain faculty […]
SDFA Endorses the Occupy Higher Education Movement
At noon on Friday, October 21, Monte Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethnic Studies PhD student Alborz Ghandehari organized a successful protest and teach-in in front of the Central Library in support of the . The event attracted over 100 students, many who came in and out of the teach-in during the afternoon to learn how the […]