Newsletters Prior to 1996-97

June 1996

• In Survey, Faculty Detail Perceptions of Decline in UC's 'Research Environment'
• President's Letter Ignites Controversy on Authority over Admissions at UC
• What Admissions Authority Does the UC Faculty Have?
• DOE Decides to Extend UC's Lab Contracts; Regents Expected to Approve Negotiations
• Senate Approves Policy that Would Permit Dismissal of 'Grossly Incompetent' Faculty
• With 'Age Factor' Change, 60 Becomes Less Important at UC
• Senate's Assembly Meets at UC Irvine
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

May 1996

• UC Should Retain Management of DOE Labs, Council Says, as Division Votes Begin
• Sandra Weiss of UCSF Is Nominated for Top Senate Post
• Picture Beginning to Emerge of Admissions At UC In the Post-Affirmative Action Era
• Atkinson Says Board Did Not Violate Shared Governance
• Preliminary UCB Vote to Censure Regents
• Council Approves Major Revision of In-Residence Regulations
• News in Brief
  • Senate Health Science Panel
  • EAP Directorships
  • Faculty Handbook On-Line
• With Gift from UCR Professor, Senate Will Establish Service Award
• Letters to Notice : Roper Poll Reporting
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

April 1996

• Student Numbers and Logistical Concerns Prompt Revival of 10th-Campus Planning
• Ballots for Vote on In-Residence Issue Will Go Out in April
• The 'Managed Care' Revolution Brings a World of Trouble to UC's Medical Centers: An Interview with William Gurtner
• Senate Committee Proposes Adding Step IX to Professor Scale
• News in Brief
  • Changes at the Top
  • Another Professional Fee
  • UCOP is Moving
  • Humanities on the Net
• Senate's Assembly Will Meet in May
• UCSB Faculty to Vote on DOE Labs Issue; Academic Council Seeks Set of Labs Options
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

March 1996

• President Proposes Fundamental Change In Formula for Funding Campus Budgets
• DOE Labs Issue Comes Front and Center as Contract Decision Enters Critical Phase
• Professional School Fees: Difficult New Territory for UC
• Employee 403(b) Limits Being Scrutinized by UC Benefits
• In Mail Votes, Two Campuses Affirm Fall Resolutions on Affirmative Action
• Letters to Notice : More on the In-Residence Memorial Vote
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

February 1996

• Governance Crisis Sparked by President's Move to Postpone Affirmative Action Ban
• Survey Finds Little Faculty Consensus on Affirmative Action
• Voting Postponed on In-Residence Memorial
• Regents Get Faculty Views of Governance, Affirmative Action
• Two Views of the Affirmative Action Decision:
  • The Faculty Asks That Its Judgment Be Respected
  • Retaining Preferences Would Have Been a Regental Action
• News in Brief
  • The Eyes of Texas Are On Los Alamos
  • Senate Manual on the Internet
  • Assembly Meeting Canceled
  • Fertility Doctors' Pay Stopped
• Regents' Actions Bring Change to Academic Personnel Policies
• Letters to Notice : In-Residence Memorial; Senate Deliberations
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update -- February

December 1995

• Six More Senate Divisions Call on Regents To Rescind Affirmative Action Decisions
• Systemwide Senate Vote Will Be Held on In-Residence Issue
• Memorial Balloting Process
• Regents Are Supportive of Closing Faculty Wage Gap in Two Years, Rather than Three
• Health Care Costs Down for UC, Up for Many Faculty
• Wilkening Briefs Regents, Doctors in Growing Clinic Scandal Are Still on UCI Payroll
• News in Brief
  • Senate's Home-Page Opens
  • UCOP May Move
• Letters to Notice, In-Residence Memorial
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

November 1995

• As Analysis of Affirmative Action Changes Continues, Campus Senates Begin to Vote
• Shared Governance: Shaped by Conflict And by Agreement
• Awaiting Guidance from State, UC Takes No Position on 'Domestic Partner' Benefits
• Council Calls for Easing Restrictions On UC Home Loans
• News in Brief
  • On-Line Notice, Manual
  • Minimum 403(b) Distributions
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update

October 1995

• Following the Regents' Vote, UC Struggles to Define the Reach of Affirmative Action
• Seeing Threat to Shared Governance, Faculty Group Prepares to Petition UC Regents
• High Marks from NRC Study for UC's Doctoral Programs
• October Raises Mark First Step in Four-Year Plan to Bring Salaries to Comparison-8 Parity
• Notes from the Chair: In-Residence Issues
• News in Brief
  • Three Former UC Leaders Pass Away in Late Summer
  • Wilkening Moves to Dismiss UCI Fertility Clinic Faculty
  • 'Outside Work' Policy Issued
• Voluntary Contribution Plan Update