UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA



Quick Notes for Representative Assembly Members to Share at Department Meetings

April 16, 2019 Representative Assembly meeting.*

San Diego Divisional Chair Robert Horwitz’ Announcements

• The Institutional Reference Checks Pilot Program proposal is posted on the Senate’s website on the Issues Under Review page. Faculty are invited to comment, and the comments will be shared with Senate Council, which will provide the Senate’s formal response to the Administration.

Link to Institutional Reference Checks Proposal

• The Administration has submitted a proposal to the Senate for review, to establish a campus policy to incentivize the completion of mandatory systemwide trainings. The proposal is posted on the Senate’s website on the Issues Under Review page. Faculty are invited to comment, and the comments will be shared with Senate Council, which will provide the Senate’s formal response to the Administration.

Link to Mandatory Training Policy Proposal

• UC Academic Council sent a letter to President Napolitano and Provost Brown about the use of Research Information Management Systems (RIMS), including Academic Analytics, which Administrations on some campuses are using to plan and assess departments and faculty. The problems of the quality, reliability, and transparency of the data, and the encroachment by commercial third parties into core University operations are of key concern.

Link to UC Academic Council RIMS Letter 3-27-19

• UC remains at impasse with Elsevier in negotiations about open access and subscription payments, but UC (via California Digital Library) signed an open access (OA) publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP). This is an implementation of the same OA model that we have been pursuing with Elsevier.  The agreement is revenue neutral in that it shifts an increasing amount of the library expenditure on Cambridge to OA article processing charges over the three-year agreement and includes limits that protect both CUP and UC.  As such, it is an example of a sustainable OA publishing model.

Link to more info on UC CUP Agreement

• An affiliation agreement has been proposed between UCSF and Dignity Health, operator of hospitals in the Bay Area. UCSF is at full capacity and needs beds. Dignity Health has underutilized beds, but Dignity is a Catholic hospital chain, under the policy aegis of the Chicago diocese, and does not provide services in areas of reproductive health, abortion, transgender health, etc. UCSF Administration contends that there are viable workarounds. Others warn that an affiliation with Dignity violates the values of UC. A large number of OB/GYN and reproductive medicine faculty at UCSF wrote a letter opposing the affiliation. Our Senate Council will be discussing the matter next week, after which the UC systemwide Senate will take up the debate.

• After studying and consulting with many people about the morale problem among clinically active Health Sciences faculty, Senate Chair Horwitz and Vice Chair Corr sent a letter with recommendations to the Chancellor. [The letter has now been shared with Health Sciences leadership too.]

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s Announcements

• The 7th College proposal will be presented to the Regents in May.

• The Chancellor was been discussing a reasonable living wage for TAs with the EVC, and a Senate Administration workgroup has been formed. The Workgroup will be examining 0.25 appointments and attempting to harmonize student to TA ratios.

Presentation on Research Misconduct by VC Research Sandra Brown

Link to 4-16-19 RA Mtg Presentations

Link to UCSD Research Integrity Info

Presentation on UCPath by Pearl Trinidad-Charfauros,

Executive Director Business & Financial Services-Business Transformation & Optimization

Link to 4-16-19 RA Mtg Presentations

Link to UCSD UCPath Info

Presentation on Composite Benefit Rates by AVC Sylvia Lepe, Campus Budget Office

Link to 4-16-19 RA Mtg Presentations

Link to UCSD CBR Info

Senate Elections

• Divisional Senate Vice Chair Maripat Corr presented the slate of candidates, nominated by Senate Council, for election to the Committee on Committees (for a three-year term, effective September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2022) for Representative Assembly approval.

• Representative Assembly approved the following slate of candidates.

o Engineering Department

(1) James Friend (Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)

(2) Tajana Rosing (Professor, Computer Science & Engineering)

o Health Sciences Department

(1) Brian Eliceiri (Professor IR, Surgery)

(2) Tamara Wall (Professor IR, Psychiatry)

o Science Department

(1) Elsa Cleland (Professor, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution)

(2) James Nieh (Professor, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution)

o Social Sciences Department

(1) Mary Blair-Loy (Professor, Sociology)

(2) J. Lawrence Broz (Professor, Political Science)

o At-large Member

(1) Andrew McCulloch (Professor, Bioengineering)

(2) Rossen Valkanov (Professor, Rady School of Management)

• Vice Chair Corr announced the Committee on Committees nominees for Vice Chair and Divisional Representatives to the UC systemwide Assembly.

o Vice Chair (Chair Designate) of the Division for a two-year term, effective September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2021. The incumbent serves as Vice Chair the first year and as Chair the second year.

1) Steven Constable (Professor, SIO-IGPP)

2) Akos Rona-Tas (Professor, Sociology)

o Divisional Representative to the UC systemwide Assembly of the Academic Senate. There are three vacancies. The term is two years, effective September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2021.

1) Seana Coulson (Professor, Cognitive Science)

2) Tara Javidi (Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering)

3) Stephanie Mel (Associate Teaching Professor, Molecular Biology)

4) David Sandwell (Professor, SIO-IGPP)

5) Daniel Widener (Associate Professor, History)

6) Shahrokh Yadegari (Professor, Music)

• [Note: Voting will be begin on April 29th and end on May 15th.]

Senate Council, Maripat Corr, Vice Chair

• A UCSF Fossil Fuel Divestment Memorial (page 59 of meeting materials) was presented and approved.

• The memorial states, “The U.C. Academic Senate petitions the Regents to divest the University’s endowment portfolio of all investments in the 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies with the largest carbon reserves.”

• All 10 Divisions are currently reviewing the memorial. If three Divisions representing 35% of the UC Academic Senate membership approve it, all Senate members at all 10 Divisions will be asked to vote on it.

Committee on Committees, Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Chair

• A proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Bylaw 185, Committee on Committees (page 67 of meeting materials) was presented and approved.

Committee on Senate Awards, Barbara Walter, Chair

• Representative Assembly approved the 2018-2019 Distinguished Teaching Awardees, nominated by the Committee on Senate Awards.

1) Distinguished Teaching Award, Senate Members

• Alison Coil, Physics

• Maureen Feeley, Political Science

• Joseph Hankins, Anthropology

• Rebecca Plant, History

• Joel Watson, Economics

2) Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award, Non-Senate Members

• Antony Lyon, Writing Program/Revelle College

• Jennifer Namba, Skaggs School of Pharmacy

• Malcolm Stokes, MPL/SIO

3) Barbara and Paul Saltman Excellent Teaching Award, Graduate Students

• Lauren Ferry, Political Science

• Raymond Mak, Biology

• Alex Meill, Physics 

*These notes are intended to be a quick recap and supplement to the notes taken by Representative Assembly members at the meeting, in order to aid them in their reporting at Department meetings. The notes do not replace the minutes, which are the official record of Representative Assembly meetings and are approved at the following Assembly meeting.

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