Faculty Assembly

President’s Report
September, 2001

System EPUS

•     System EPUS is in the process of writing the Copyright and Educational Materials sections of the Intellectual Property document. Drafts, will protect faculty, staff, and student rights consistent with long term traditions.  Drafts will be on line soon.  A campus forum will be held.

Salary Compression

•     We will continue to work on this for the coming year.  Over $250,000 annually has been added to address this problem with both tenure track and nontenure track faculty.   UBAC tentatively has $100,000 in the budget for next year.  I would like to see this amount increased and/or continued in coming years with increased attention to problems of NTTF.

Faculty Council

•     Revising the Constitution and Bylaw for a Faculty Senate Vote later in the year.

•    Annual Faculty Senate Meeting on October 4, 2001 from 12:3O - 2:45 PM at the UCD campus in Dravo Building - Room 299.

•     An informational meeting about unionization issues will follow the Faculty Senate Meeting from 3:00-4:00 PM in a room to be announced in the Dravo Building.  The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) will make a presentation.

 VCAA Search

•    The current search for the permanent VCAA Position has been ended. It will be resumed in coordination with the permanent filling of the Chancellor position.

 Filling and Restructuring Faculty Assembly Committees

•   Reconstitute Library Committee

•   Restructure Budget

•   Restructure Information Technology     

•   University Budget Advisory Committee (UBAC) - 2 members needed (LAS & Engineering (Also serve on Faculty Assembly Budget Committee)

•   Library Committee - need one member from each college

•   Information Technology Committee (Also serves on Faculty Assembly Education Technology Committee) - 1 member needed

•   Non-Tenure Track Committee -2 members needed

•   Awards Committee - 1 member needed

•   Campus Representative to the Silver & Gold Record Board. (System) - 1 representative needed.

·     System Minority Affairs -2 members needed

·     System Faculty Personnel

·    Chancellor Search

According to the Faculty Handbook, Rules of the Senate, Article II.B.1.b, bullet 4 (page Appendix-5 of the printed Faculty handbook), the faculty “sha1l act jointly with the administration to make recommendations to the Board of Regents in the areas of selection of academic administrators.”

And, according to the Rules of the Regents III.D “The Search Committee,” A (page 1-6 of the printed Faculty Handbook), “constituencies which make nominations for membership on search committees for the Office of President or Chancellor shall adopt a procedure that ensures that nominees for committee membership will be forwarded to the appropriate administrator within one week after they have been informed in writing that a vacancy in the Office of the President or Chancellor will occur. For example, some constituencies may wish to maintain, by annual election or otherwise, a sufficient pool of nominees.”