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Presidents Report

February 9,2001

System EPUS

Intellectual Property

• Break up Patents from Copyright & On-line teaching

• Create thresholds

Salary Compression

• Will work with Steve Chambers to create low/medium/high scenarios for salary (i.e. 93%, 94%, 95%)

• Salary enhancement committee will start from here.

Summer Courses

• Proposals will be accepted for enhancing summer enrollments.

Central Benefits

• Reported at Faculty Council

• Other campuses having similar problems.

• System benefits concerned (Bruce Newman)

• Chancellor Supportive

• Could be solved at presidents level.

Faculty Council

• Snow yesterday limited participation.

• Leonard Denniger - Metro issues dead. State mandated core curriculum (HB-1263) greatly modified. Funding issues will likely drag it down. Balance of power at state level has been somewhat helpful to the University.

• State revenues will be somewhat constrained by economic downturns. True in many states this year.

• Faculty council is working on revising its Constitution & Bylaws.

• UCB faculty assembly is continuing to explore collective bargaining. We could share some of their presenters if desired.

• Recommended a draft motion concerning salaries be considered by the System Budget committee. Basically recommends that 85% of total faculty salary pool be allocated in a collegial process by primary units. Designed to limit "skims". Relates to issues being considered by our Personnel & Benefits committees.

Election Committee

• Soliciting members

• Announcements will be out soon.