This proposal seeks to establish adequate security measures for Electronic voting procedures, allowing for the utilization of future technologies and improved systems without having to constantly update the bylaws.

UCLA's Response to the Proposed Revision of Executive Board By-law 155, Section E

Academic Receivership Taskforce (Appendix XVI)

Origin: Academic Receivership Taskforce

Opining:

Executive Board
Undergraduate Council
Graduate Council
Legislative Assembly
Rules & Jurisdiction

Response Due: November 14, 2007

This report is

UCLA's Response on the Academic Recievership Taskforce (Appendix XVI)

Review of Eligibility Criteria

Origin: Michael Brown, Systemwide Senate Chair

Opining:

Executive Board
Undergraduate Council
CUARS

Response Due: November 14, 2007

This proposal is a review of UC Freshman Eligibility criteria.

UCLA's Response on the Review of Eligibility Criteria

Health Economics Appendix V

Origin: Graduate Council Chair

Opining:

Executive Board
Legislative Assembly

Response Due: None Indicated

This proposal seeks to diestablish the Health Economics Program.

UCLA's Response on Health Economics

Women's Studies Departmentalization:

Proposal; Appendices A-R; Appendix S

Origin: Christine Littleton, Women's Studies Chair

Opining:

Legislative Assembly
Rules & Jurisdiction

Response Due: None indicated

This proposal seeks to formally establish a Department for the Women's Studies Program.

UCLA's Response on Women's Studies Departmentalization

Neurosurgery Departmentalization (Links Below):

Departmental Request
Proposal for Departmental Status
Proposal Appendices

Origin: Donald Becker, Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Medicine

Opining:

Executive Board
Graduate Council
Legislative Assembly
Rules & Jurisdiction

Response Due: ASAP

This proposal seeks a formal departmentalization of the Neuosurgery Program.

UCLA's Response on Neurosurgery Deparmentalization

Proposal to Disestablish the Plant Biology Degree & Plant Biotechnology Degree
from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Origin: UCLA Chair Shetty

Opining:

Undergraduate Council
Legislative Assembly

Response Due: None indicated

This proposal seeks to

UCLA's Response on the Proposal to Disestablish the Plant Biology Degree
UCLA's Response on the Proposal to Disestablish the Plant Biotechnology

Proposed Changes to the UCLA CALL
(Part 1) (Part 2)
(Part 3) (Part 4)
(Part 5) (Part 6)
(Part 7) (Part 8)

Origin: Vice Chancellor of Academic Personell Tom Rice, CAP Chair Howard Reiber

Opining:

Executive Board

Response Due: October 1, 2007

Proposed Changes to the UCLA CALL:
(Part 1) (Part 2)
(Part 3) (Part 4)
(Part 5) (Part 6)
(Part 7) (Part 8)

This proposal seeks to make certain changes to the UCLA CALL as reviewed by VC Tom Rice and CAP Chair Reiber.

UCLA's Response on Proposed Changes to the UCLA CALL

IDP Task Force Report Recommendations

Origin: UCLA Chair Shetty

Opining:

IDP Task Force

Response Due: None indicated

IDP Task Force Report Recommendations

Systemwide Senate Review of the Proposed Amendments to SR 636

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Undergraduate Council

Response Due: November 1, 2007

This proposal comes from the University Committee on Prepartory Education and seeks to put a systemwide cap on writing courses at 20 students.

UCLA's Response on Systemwide Senate Review of Proposed Amendments to SR 636

Proposed Senate Bylaw 16—Executive Director

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction

Response Due: January 10, 2007

This proposal would make the systemwide E.D. in Oakland an non-member officer of the Senate; also provides for a clean understanding of the human resources policies and procedures that apply to the E.D. as an employee of UC.

UCLA’s Response on Proposed Senate Bylaw 16—Executive Director

Proposed Policy on Stewardship of Electronic Information

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Library
Council on Planning and Budget
Information Technology Planning Board (ITPB)

Response Due: January 11, 2007

The proposal was prepared by the UC Information Security Work Group. The guidelines would establish broad expectations for all 10 campuses regarding privacy rights, confidentiality, integrity, and timely access to information, including sensitive or critical information that is stored, transmitted, or processed by UC IT systems. It delegates to the campuses the oversight and implementation of policies, and sets the expectation that departments and individuals will be required to comply.

UCLA’s Response on Proposed Policy on Stewardship of Electronic Information

“Institutional Review Boards (IRB) at UC: IRB Operations and Research Experience”

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Academic Freedom
Council on Research
Graduate Council

Response Due: January 10, 2007

The Academic Council asked UCOPR to draft this report, in response to complaints from faculty that IRBs were ‘overzealous’ and that they presented faculty with unreasonable levels of difficulty to garner IRB approval. Also, IRB’s mandates have been expanded to regulate research where there is no risk to human subjects, like the social sciences and humanities.

The report delineated 7 summary findings (pages 7-11) and 8 recommendations (pages 11-15).

UCLA’s Response on “Institutional Review Boards (IRB) at UC: IRB Operations and Research Experience”

Joint University Committee on Educational Policy and Coordinating Council on Graduate Affairs Proposal on the Role of Graduate Students in University Instruction

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Graduate Council
Undergraduate Council

Response Due: January 10, 2007

The two Systemwide committees reviewed the use of grad students in UC instruction and found practices and policies differ significantly. “Their continuing separate evolution… may leave these policies vulnerable to departure from underlying principles that place the University’s educational mission as first and foremost in their design.”

Recommends that all grad student instruction take place within two supervised student instructor titles, “Graduate Teaching Assistant” and “Graduate Teaching Fellow.” GTA is similar to the current TA, while GTF would have broader responsibilities. Both remain under the supervision and mentorship of a faculty member.

UCLA’s Response on Joint University Committee on Educational Policy and Coordinating Council on Graduate Affairs Proposal on the Role of Graduate Students in University Instruction

Review of the UCAP’s “Synopsis of the present Status of the UC Merit and Promotion System and Principles of and Policy Recommendation for UC Faculty Compensation.”

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
Council on Academic Personnel

Response Due: February 15, 2007

The recommendations seek to answer the increasingly antiquated step and rank system. Establishes 5 Principles of UC Faculty Salary Compensation (pages 3-4), 3 policy recommendations (page 4) and five Proposed Implementation Steps.

UCLA's response on Review of the UCAP’s “Synopsis of the present Status of the UC Merit and Promotion System and Principles of and Policy Recommendation for UC Faculty Compensation.”

Universitywide Committee on Academic Personnel (UCAP) Proposed Modification to Academic Personnel Policies (APM 220-18b, (4) {Advancement to Professor Step VI and Above Scale}

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
Council on Academic Personnel

Response Due: February 15, 2007

UCAP found that the current 10 campuses reading and application of APM 220-18b, (4) resulted in differences throughout the system and that the APM criteria for advancement from Step V to VI were difficult to distinguish from the criteria for advancement to Above Scale.

UCAP has sought to recognize the longstanding centrality of teaching to the UC academic mission. Its proposal seeks to strengthen the Step VI requirements for University teaching, while indicating the criteria for research and service be changed from “excellence” to “sustained excellence.” It also added two phrases, “career review” and “sustained excellence” to the APM, underscoring their intent to highlight the standard of long-term achievement in scholarship or creative achievement, teaching, and service.

UCLA's response on Universitywide Committee on Academic Personnel (UCAP) Proposed Modification to Academic Personnel Policies (APM 220-18b, (4) {Advancement to Professor Step VI and Above Scale}

Proposed Modification to Senate Bylaw 205 Part I.A.

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Committee on Committees
Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction

Response Due: February 15, 2007

This proposal seeks to add a vice chair to the UCR&J, and to expand its membership by 2.

UCLA's response on Proposed Modification to Senate Bylaw 205 Part I.A.

Draft Proposal on the Relationships (Pharmaceutical) Vendors and Clinicians

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Council on Planning and Budget
Academic Freedom
Council on Research
The following FEC’s: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health

Response Due:

Part 1, March 10, 2007
Part 2, May 10, 2007

UC medical schools are reviewing their policies or developing policies with respect to pharmaceutical vendor relationship. UCOP-Office of Clinical Services has proposed a set of policy on the relationship between vendors and clinicians in part to: 1) position UC as a leader in this area; and 2) coordinate potentially conflicting efforts on the campus. Since Clinical Services would like to expeditiously move to approve this proposal, the UCOP reviewers removed two items in the Brennan proposal that are in the purview of the Academic Senate and would therefore require significant Senate review prior to approval. The two draft policies removed from current consideration are: 1) Faculty may not publish articles or editorials that are ghostwritten by vendor employees; and 2) “No strings attached” grants or gifts directed to individuals from vendors shall be prohibited (this excludes competitive grants). In addition a third item was also excluded from the proposed UC policy at this time. That policy would require that “All consulting agreement and unconditional grants shall be publicly listed (e.g., on an internet web site).” The reason why the third proposed policy was pulled from the proposal as provided to us by UCOP is “. . . that faculty in the medical school compensation plan can personally enter into certain consulting agreements without the review of prospective approval of the University. To bring those into the public list may require revisiting the compensation plan.”

Proposed Amendments to Senate Regulation (SR) 694 and Proposed New Senate Regulation (SR) 695

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Graduate Council
Committee on Continuing and Community Education

Response Due: March 5, 2007

Last year, the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA) determined that due partly to the use of technology for the delivery of instruction and the development of new domestic and global educational partners, Senate Regulations specifically dealing with (graduate) residency requirements should be reviewed. As a result of this review, CCGA has proposed that SR 694 be revised to make clear an ambiguity regarding the participation of University Extension in off-campus instruction (it is optional). The new section F establishes Senate oversight for programs that shift curriculum between on-and off campus delivery, or between conventional and electronic delivery.

The proposed SR 695 seeks to provide a structure that will ensure UC standards apply to electronic instructional delivery while delineating how electronic instruction will relate to the satisfaction of residency requirements.

UCLA's response on Proposed Amendments to Senate Regulation (SR) 694 and Proposed New Senate Regulation (SR) 695

Proposed Revision of Senate Bylaw 67.1

Origin: UCLA Education Abroad Committee

Opining:

Executive Board
Rules and Jurisdiction

Response Due: None indicated

The EAC seeks to amend Bylaw 67.1 to rename the committee to International Education and to expand membership to nine from five.

This proposal was approved by the Legislative Assembly on February 7, 2007.

Proposed Revision to Committee on Library Bylaw 75.2

Origin: UCLA Committee on Library

Opining:

Executive Board
Rules and Jurisdiction
Legislative Assembly

Response Due: None indicated

Last year, the systemwide Committee on Library expanded its name and area of responsibility from simply matters pertaining to the library to include “scholarly communication.” This move is considered a parallel move and would modify the divisional bylaw to reflect systemwide changes.

This proposal was approved by the Legislative Assembly on April 30, 2007.

Proposed Revision to Executive Board Bylaw 60, Section A

Origin: UCLA Executive Board

Opining:

Executive Board
Rules and Jurisdiction
Legislative Assembly

Response Due: None indicated

This proposal would extend voting rights to the Ex Officio members of the Board, while limiting their term to two years or the duration of their term as chair of their respective Council, whichever is shorter.

This proposal was approved by the Legislative Assembly on April 30, 2007.

Proposed Revisions to Academic Senate Regulation 436 A-F, Academic Requirements of the School of the Arts and Architecture, Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree

Origin: Originally by Dean Waterman, forwarded to Executive Board by Undergraduate Council Chair Robert Fink

Opining:

Executive Board
Rules and Jurisdiction
Undergraduate Council
Legislative Assembly

Response Due: None indicated

The notion of a diversity requirement - in this case 1 course - is predicated on the idea that students in the arts should have an understanding of the social contexts cultural backgrounds of artistic expression, production, and consumption.

This proposal was approved by the Legislative Assembly on April 30, 2007.

Systemwide Senate Review of the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates Proposed Review on the Proper Use of the California High School Exit Exam

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Undergraduate Council
Committtee on Undergraduate Admissions & Relations with Schools

Response Due: June 13, 2007

Drafted by the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates (ICSA) the proposal seeks to construct a normative use of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), which students must receive a passing score on in order to graduate. Because fixed minimum thresholds "on any particular performance criterion like CAHSEE are inherently arbitrary," and for various societal resons, ICSA proposed that:

Scores from CAHSEE be used to determine underperforming schools in order to better resource them;
Scores should be used to counsel students who don't pass CAHSEE of the value of improving competencies; and
Scores from CAHSEE should not be used as a sole determinant of high school graduation or the awarding of diplomas until questions about hte impact of exit exams are answered.

UCLA's response to Draft Resolution of the Propoer Use of the California High School Exit Exam

Proposed Amendments to APM 620, Policy on Off-Scale Salaries

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Council on Academic Personnel
Council on Planning and Budget

Response Due: July 12, 2007

In November 2006, President Dynes set up a work group to address the faculty salary scales. The workgroup is chaired by Provost Rory Hume, and is charged with recommending to the President steps that UC "...should take to continue to attract and retain faculty through a competitive and effective system of compensation, while also retaining the benefit of a rigorous and effective post-tenure review."

The work group recommends the following: 1. Eliminate from APM 620 language declaring off-scales as to be used in 'exceptional circumstances' and only in the short term; 2. Amend APM 620 to make the salary system a range system rather than a point system so that 'on scale' refers to a salary being within a range; 3. Provide COLA this year to all faculty, those on- and those off-scale; and 4. Propose a new scale which would move current scales substantially upwards in order to bring those who are 'off scale' into range.

UCLA's response to Proposed Amendments to APM 620, Policy on Off-Scale Salaries

Systemwide Review of The Regents' Proposed RE-89 - Adoption of Policy Restricting University Acceptance of Funding from the Tobacco Industry

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board

Response Due: April 13, 2007

Proposal would prohibit the University from accepting funds "from the manufacturers or distributors of tobacco products, their affiliates, or any entity controlling or controlled by such companies, that are to be used to study tobacco-related diseases, the use of tobacco products or the individual or societal impacts of such use."

UCLA's response to Systemwide Review of The Regents' Proposed RE-89-Adoption of Policy Restricting University Acceptance of Funding from the Tobacco Industry

Proposed Open Access Policy

Origin: Chair Oakley

Opining:

Executive Board
Council on Research
Committee on Library
Academic Freedom
Faculty Executive Committees

Response Due: May 7, 2007

In response to a request from the Academic Assembly, Provost and EVP Rory Hume convened a work group to draft a policy to "ensure the widest dissemination of scholarly works that advance the University's mission of education and research, and to encourage faculty members to retain their individual copyright while granting publishers non-exclusive rights."

UCLA's response to Proposed Open Access Policy

Proposed Fiscal Impact Statement

Origin:

Response Due:

UCLA's response to Proposed Fiscal Impact Statement

Issues Archive

Neurosurgery Departmentalization (Links Below):

Proposed Changes to the UCLA CALL (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 8)

Proposed Changes to the UCLA CALL
(Part 1) (Part 2)
(Part 3) (Part 4)
(Part 5) (Part 6)
(Part 7) (Part 8)