| The Council on
Academic Personnel (CAP) is responsible for the review of
all significant personnel actions involving employees of UCLA
holding academic titles. It meets once a week for a full day, 11
months of the year. A full description of the specific
mechanisms of CAP involvement in personnel processes would
require more space than is allocated in this briefing book. An
informal guide to CAP, which discusses in more detail matters
touched upon below, is given to incoming CAP members. The
comments that follow are only a summary of CAP's charges and
procedures and the general issues relevant to its role in the
Academic Senate.
Positions in the Professorial
series are divided into ranks and, within ranks, into steps.
There is a nominal rate of step advancement within a rank.
Council does not review on-time merit increases within the ranks
of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. All advances which confer Senate membership that
involve a change in rank are subject to CAP review. These
include promotion from Assistant to Associate (tenure), and
Associate to Full Professor and promotion to Professor Above
Scale. CAP also reviews merit increases to the
"barrier" Step VI on the Full Professor ladder and all
merit increases for Above Scale Professors. The latter are known
as advances to Further Above Scale. CAP also reviews all
mid-career appraisals of Assistant Professors and merit
increases that are either accelerated or decelerated by more
than one year. Finally CAP looks at appointments to tenured
positions. At the University of California all Professorial
positions at the Associate or higher level carry tenure.
CAP's charge
is to maintain standards and equity across the campus. Although
its role is, strictly speaking, advisory, the opinion of CAP, as
expressed in the reports it submits, are given considerable
weight. According to current practice, the Vice Chancellor will
not make a decision that is inconsistent with the
recommendations of CAP without informing the Council, either
through its Chair and Vice Chair or in the course of a visit to
the Council as a whole.
Membership. Fourteen
voting faculty, appointed by the Committee on Committees and
confirmed by the Legislative Assembly for up to 3 years.
Committee on Committees appoints and Legislative Assembly
confirms the Chair.
Interactions with
Administration. Council interacts extensively with the Vice
Chancellor for Academic Personnel and, as needed, with relevant
Deans.
The Council on Academic
Personnel meets every Tuesday 8:30-5 p.m.
Chair: Daniel J.B. Mitchell, x51504,
daniel.j.b.mitchell@anderson.ucla.edu
Principal Policy Analyst Contact: Carolynne Hogg, x53854, hogg@senate.ucla.edu. |
