The UC is facing its biggest emergency yet: a letter from the Trump administration demanding a $1-billion settlement from UCLA after freezing $584 million in federal grants. This is the largest monetary demand yet from a single university, and an…
Dear DFA members, Hopefully you have mostly wrapped up the academic year, got your grades in, and are preparing to either relax a little or get back to your research projects and other endeavors (that is, if you’re not preparing…
Dear colleagues, By now, you may have heard that the University of California is requiring all employees to comply with the cybersecurity mandate issued last year by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). Deadlines vary across UC…
Dear DFA members, I hope you are all doing as well as possible during our stressful and unsettling times. We professors are undergoing an unprecedented assault on our financial stability, our civil liberties, our freedom of speech, our intellectual freedom…
Update: A few hours after we sent the below letter, we got a response that Chancellor May has signed on to the public statement authored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), and that his name should appear…
Dear UCD colleagues, Please join us for our upcoming Know-Your-Rights event, this Thursday at noon, hosted by the Davis Faculty Association and cosponsored by the UCD School of Law’s Aoki Center. It’s a great opportunity to learn more from our…
Dear UC Davis colleagues, In recent weeks, it has become clear we are facing an unprecedented attack on our universities, and that the Trump Administration is using every lever to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy entire sectors of higher education. The…
On April 8, the Davis Faculty Association joined the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) and 30 faculty associations nationwide in an amici curiae brief supporting a preliminary injunction sought by AAUP against the Trump administration. AAUP v. Rubio seeks…
Below, please find our letter to campus leaders calling on UCD to take important steps to protect students and staff: —————— March 28, 2025 To: Chancellor Gary May; Chief Campus General Counsel Michael Sweeney; Office of Judicial Affairs Director Stacy…
Dear Colleagues: The university is under attack. The Trump administration’s all-out assault on higher education, and its commitment to science, academic freedom, and civil liberties must not stand. DFA, along with other Faculty Associations of the University of California calls…
