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, 1997-1999 February 1999 (pdf) Task Force Appointed for UC Merced Campus Faculty Salary Increases Achieve Comparison Parity; Questions for the Future Remain News from the Divisions UC Davis Academic Senate Chair Bryan Miller Dies Notes from the Chair: Governance in Action Voluntary Contribution Plan Update June 1998 (pdf) High Senate Post Goes to Lawrence B. Coleman of UCD Senate Committee Needs More Information Before Deciding on New Admission Plan: Top 4 Percent of Each High School Would Be UC-Eligible Issues of Student Transfer and 'Aarticulation' Taken Up by Faculty in Statewide Conference Senate Service Award Goes to Professors from UCSB and UCR Notes from the Chair: Digital Dilemmas May 1998 (pdf) Issue of Outside Work for Faculty Revived in Concern over 'Conflict of Commitment' Berkeley Faculty and LECG Consulting Firm: If Profits Are in the Millions, Is There Necessarily a Conflict of Commitment? With Santa Cruz and Riverside Filled, UC Struggles with Issue of 'Referral Students'  Senate's Self-Study Yields Report on Shared Governance Notes from the Chair: Course Articulation News in Brief: May Assembly Meeting UC Fund Peformance Update April 1998 (pdf) 1998's Admissions Figures Made Visible The Impact Affirmative Action had on UC Table on and Chicano/Latino Freshman Admissions Major Modifications in Works for System That governs Regents' Endowment Funds Council Resolution Calls for assistance to P&T Committees Notes from the Chair: Commitment to UC News in Brief: EAP Directors Named UC Fund Performance Update March 1998 (pdf) Senate Looks into making Top 4 Percent of Students in Each High School UC-Eligible Council Approves Blueprint for Senate Role in 10th Campus Educating More Students Than The State Funds, UC Has an 'Overenrollment' Problem Notes from the Chair: Shared Governance March Voluntary Contribution Plan Update February 1998 (pdf) Governor's Support Means That Tenth Campus Has Only One Obstacle in Its Way Senate Defining Its Role in Shaping UCM SP-1 Seen as Having different Impacts on Professional Schools, Academic Programs Governor's Budget Proposes Increases in Engineering, Computer Science Enrollments UCRP Healthy, But When Will Employees Contribute to It Again? Universitywide Assembly Meets on February 24 Notes from the Chair: Graduate Education Letters to Notice: Respecting the Law on Affirmative Action February Voluntary Contribution Plan Update December 1997 (pdf) In Close Vote, Regents Approve Domestic-Partner Benefits for UC Faculty and Staff Who Is Eligible to Attend UC? Wealth of Data Come from New State Study Senate Committee Plays Pivotal Role in Admissions California's 'Virtual University' Aims to Be a Digital Center for Higher Education Following Senate Vote, UC Davis Abandons Semester Proposal News in Brief Notes from the Chair: Political Pressures and the Governance of Universities Letters to Notice: Effects of Prop. 209 December Voluntary Contribution Plan Update November 1997 (pdf) Mission of University's 'Digital Library' Extends to Reshaping Academic Publishing President Atkinson Orders Review of UCI Medical School Gov. Wilson Vetos Bill That Would Have Given UC Stable Share of State Funding Campus Research Funds Will Now Come from UC Patents Academic Council Asks Whether Division of Agriculture's Mission, Separation from Senate Should Come Under Review Notes from the Chair: Research Funding Letters to Notice: Affirmative Action and Faculty Hiring November Voluntary Contribution Plan Update October 1997 (pdf) In Response to Governor's Wishes, Regents Delay Consideration of Partners Benefits Unrecognized Partners: Three UC Stories Panel Recommends Dropping SAT To Increase Eligibility of Latino Students With Final Hurdles Cleared, Stanford and UCSF Will Merge Their Medical Centers Salary Increases Delayed for One Month Assembly To Meet This Month at UCB News in Brief Letters to Notice: UC Faculty and Nuclear Weapons Notes from the Chair: A Valuable Debate October Voluntary Contribution Plan Update