by Ben McCoy The Academic Senate Special Committee on Transportation and Parking was appointed in June of 1999 in response to growing faculty concern regarding escalating parking fees and the increasing practice of replacing existing parking lots, which had already…
by Barry McLaughlin, who serves on the systemwide FWC and on the Faculty Association board at UCSC Most faculty do not think about their retirement plan until late in their careers. They have heard that the University offers a good…
by Charles Nash The following is a brief update regarding the status of AB 1773, legislation which the UC and CSU Faculty Associations are co-sponsoring. The bill attempts to delineate the role played by the faculty in controlling the subsequent…
UC faculty do not receive retirement credit for supplementary work paid out of grants or for summer school teaching. Medical school faculty likewise receive retirement credit for only a portion of their salary. Here is the background on this problem.…
SCAPP Reminder: Recently, the Academic Senate appointed a special committee to study faculty pay and promotion practices. The committee has been asked to finish their tasks and submit a final report by May 1. We have heard from the Committee…
Update on LAO Proposed UC Budget Reductions: Report on the Senate Budget Hearing March 8, 2000 and Issues to Discuss at Assembly Budget Hearing Set for March 15: The Senate chose not to accept the LAO recommendations to cut UC’s…
The Faculty Association monitors the UC budget process and lobbies on behalf of faculty interests when the budget is discussed in the Legislature. We were pleased that the Governor’s proposal reflected faculty concerns in the Regents’ 2000-01 budget, such as…
In response to the joint concerns of the California Faculty Association (the CSU faculty’s union) and the Council of UC Faculty Associations (of which the Davis Faculty Association is a member), Assemblymember Gloria Romero has introduced AB 1773, which deals…
The Faculty Association follows the UC budget process and reports regularly to its members on elements in the budget that are of particular concern to faculty. The following press release contains details of the Governor’s proposed budget for UC. Of…
As an Academic Senate member, you probably received a recent memo signed by Jeffery Gibeling (UCD Academic Senate Chair) and Janet Hamilton (Vice Chancellor – Administration). This memo, dated November 19 and labeled as Directive #99-134, suggests that as “an…
