Academic Senate University of California 1111 Franklin St., 12th Floor Oakland, CA 94607-5200 Please send website comments or questions to mbertero@ucop.edu		Previous Issues, 1995-1996 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 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 Council Approves Major Revision of In-Residence Regulations Atkinson Says Board Did Not Violate Shared Governance News in Brief With Gift from UCR Professor, Senate Will Establish Service Award Letters to Notice: Roper Poll Reporting April 1996 Student Numbers and Logistical Concerns Prompt Revivial 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 Senate's Assembly Will Meet in May UCSB Faculty to Vote on DOE Labs Issue: Academic Council Seeks Set of Labs Options 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 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, and Retaining Preferences Would Have Been a Regental Action News in Brief Regents' Actions Bring Change to Academic Personnel Policies Letters to Notice: In-Residence Memorial, and Senate Deliberations December 1995 Six More Senate Division 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 Doctors in Growing Clinic Scandal Are Still on UCI Payroll News in Brief Letters to Notice: In-Residence Memorial 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 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 for 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