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2007-2008
APM Policies Under Review
Expedited Review
Proposed Revisions to APM 220-18-b(4), Criteria
for Advancement to
Professor Step VI and Professor Above-Scale
Issued June 30, 2008
Comments due
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Policy:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review-draft-apm-220-18-b(4).pdf
Proposed Revisions to APM 220-85-b, 335-10-a, and 740-11-c;
and
Proposal to Delete APM 350
Issued April 14, 2008
Comments due
Monday, June 16, 2008
Policy:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review.html
Proposed Revisions to
APM 710 and Proposed New 711 and 080
Issued
December
5, 2007
Comments due
Friday,
December 21, 2007
Policy:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review-710-711-080.html
2006-2007
APM Policies Under Review
Proposed Revisions to APM Policies 110-4;
230-17 and -18; 279-20; 360-80-a;
520-4; 710-14, -38, -46; and
Proposed New APM 765
Issued
April 12, 2007
Comments due
Friday, June 15,
2007
Policy:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/rev-110-4-etc.html
Proposed Revisions to
APM 700 and 710; proposed new 080 and 711
Issued
April
19, 2006
Comments due
Friday, June 16,
2006
Policy:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/rev-700-etc.html
E X P E D I T E D R E V I E W
June 30, 2008
DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and
DIRECTORS
Re: Proposed Revisions to APM
220-18-b(4), Criteria for Advancement to Professor Step VI
and Professor Above-Scale
Enclosed for formal review are
proposed revisions to Academic Personnel Policy 220-18-b(4),
Criteria for Advancement to Professor Step VI and Professor
Above-Scale.
Proposed revisions to 220-18-b(4)
would clarify that an overall career review is necessary for
advancement and place greater emphasis on teaching and
creative activity in determining advancement than on
service.
Please make this proposed policy
available to your faculty and other interested parties for
comment. Opinions of faculty members are of particular
importance, given the central role of shared governance in
the University.
The proposal is available online
at:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review-draft-apm-220-18-b(4).pdf
Since this is an expedited review,
I would appreciate receiving all comments by
Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Thomas Rice
Vice Chancellor
Academic Personnel
Enclosure
P L E A S E P O S T
April 14,
2008
DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and DIRECTORS
Re: Proposed Revisions to APM 220-85-b, 335-10-a, and
740-11-c; and Proposal to Delete APM 350
Enclosed
for formal review are the following Academic Personnel
Manual Policies described below:
Ô
APM
220-85-b -- Professor Series
Ô
APM
335-10-a -- Cooperative Extension Advisor Series
Ô
APM
740-11-c -- Leaves of Absences/Sabbatical Leaves
Ô
APM 350 -- Postgraduate Research
(e.g. Physicist)
A technical
revision to APM 220-85-b
would correct an error in numbering that was recently
brought to our attention. APM 220-85-b specifies that an “ad
hoc review committee shall be appointed in accordance with
the provisions of APM 220-80-e, and it shall carry out its
duties as therein specified.” The reference should be to
APM 220-80-g.
Proposed
revisions to APM 335-10-a
would make the criteria for Cooperative Extension Advisors
consistent with the criteria for Specialists in Cooperative
Extension. One of the recommendations of the Cooperative
Extension Advisor Status Task Force report on February 1,
2007 was to delete the minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s
degree for the Cooperative Extension Advisor Series. The
task force found that the educational background for
appointees in this series is substantially higher, usually a
Master’s degree or Ph.D. The proposed deletion of the
educational requirement from APM 335-10-a would make the
criteria for Cooperative Extension Advisors consistent with
the criteria for Specialists in Cooperative Extension (APM
334-10-a).
Proposed
revisions to APM 740-11-c
provides that individuals with specified academic
administrative or Senior Management Group appointments who
also hold a faculty title are eligible to accrue sabbatical
leave credit. Thirty-three titles are included in the list.
Some of the most distinguished UC Berkeley faculty have
taken on the responsibilities of serving as administrators
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and have been
denied a benefit accorded to other academic administrators.
The Memorandum of Understanding with Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory has provisions to ensure that the
benefits provided to faculty working at the Laboratory
should be consistent and equitable with those provided under
the APM. It is recommended that the titles of Laboratory
Director, Associate Laboratory Director and Deputy Director
be added to the list of titles that are eligible to qualify
for sabbatical leave service.
Proposal to delete APM 350.
On July 1, 2003, APM 390 (Postdoctoral Scholars) was issued.
Transition guidelines were also issued that required
appointees who were not postdoctoral scholars to be moved to
other titles, established new title codes, and required the
gradual phase out of Postgraduate Research and Visiting
Postdoctoral Scholar titles with the retirement of these
titles to be effective by January 1, 2010. These changes
have rendered APM 350 obsolete. In addition, the reference
in APM 350 to graduate students is no longer correct as
graduate students have not been eligible for the
Postgraduate Research title for some time. Given that APM
350 contains virtually no information on job duties, and
individuals currently in the Postgraduate Research title are
now subject to the provisions of APM 390, it is recommended
that APM 350 be rescinded.
Please make
these proposed policies available to your faculty and other
interested parties for comment. Opinions of faculty members
are of particular importance, given the central role of
shared governance in the University.
The
proposal is available online at:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review.html
Thank you for
your attention to this matter. Please return any comments
to me by
Monday, June 16, 2008.
Sincerely,
Thomas Rice
Vice Chancellor
Academic Personnel
Enclosure
cc: Claudia
Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor -- Graduate Studies
P L E A S E P O S T
December 5, 2007
DEANS,
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and DIRECTORS
Re: Proposed
Revisions to APM 710; and Proposed New APM 711 and 080
Enclosed for
formal review are the following Academic Personnel Manual
Policies described below:
-
APM 710 -- Leaves of Absence/Sick Leave
-
Proposed new APM 711 -- Reasonable Accommodation for
Academic
Appointees with Disabilities, and
-
Proposed new APM 080 -- Medical Separation
These proposed
revisions have been developed in response to requests to
clarify policy governing paid medical leave for academic
appointees who do not accrue sick leave and to develop new
policies for reasonable accommodation and medical separation
for academic appointees.
Proposed
revisions to APM 710 would establish a guaranteed
amount of paid medical leave for full-time academic
appointees who do not accrue sick leave and would provide
guidelines for how and when medical information should be
requested in support of requests for such leave. The
proposal provides a maximum of six-months of paid medical
leave within the first 10 years of employment to academic
appointees with less than 10 years of UC service in titles
that do not accrue sick leave. For those with more than 10
years of service, the proposal provides a maximum of one
year of paid sick leave in a 10-year period. To put this in
perspective, other eligible UC academic and staff appointees
accrue 12 days of sick leave per year, and it takes almost
22 years for them to accumulate one year of paid sick leave.
Since the last
systemwide review, “sick leave” has been clarified as
“medical leave” for academic appointees who do not accrue
sick leave, and wording was changed to address a concern
about UCRP service credit and to clarify language on the
transfer of accrued sick leave.
Proposed new
APM 711 is needed to comply with Federal and State law.
It would provide guidance for the interactive process and
reasonable accommodation, clarify levels of authority and
emphasize that prior approval is necessary before medical
separation can be approved.
Proposed new
APM 080 outlines the process for medical separation of
academic appointees who have exhausted leave and continue to
be unable to work for health reasons and for whom reasonable
accommodation is not possible. APM 080 would provide a
means to handle such cases differently from disciplinary
actions due to misconduct or incompetent performance.
Please make
these proposed policies available to your faculty and other
interested parties for comment. Opinions of faculty members
are of particular importance, given the central role of
shared governance in the University.
The proposal is
available online at:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/review-710-711-080.html
Thank you for
your attention to this matter. Please return any comments
to me by
Friday, December 21, 2007.
Sincerely,
Thomas Rice
Vice Chancellor
Academic Personnel
Enclosure
P L E A S E P O S T
April 12, 2007
DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and DIRECTORS
Re: Proposed Revisions to APM Policies 110-4; 230-17 and
-18; 279-20; 360-80-a; 520-4; 710-14, -38, -46; and Proposed
New APM 765
Enclosed for formal review are the following Academic
Personnel Manual Policies described below:
Proposed revisions to APM
110-4 adds the definition of “domestic partner”
to be consistent with the definition of domestic partner in
Personnel Policies for Staff Members Section 2 (Definition
of Terms).
Proposed revisions to APM
230-17 would allow for a total period of
consecutive service not to exceed three years for appointees
in the Visiting Assistant Professor Programs in
Mathematics. Proposal to delete
APM 230-18-c
which prohibits an appointee with a Visiting title in one of
the schools of health sciences to be a member of special
compensation plans of the schools. Pursuant to APM 670
(Health Sciences Compensation Plan), individuals in the
Visiting Professor title who meet specified conditions are
eligible for membership in the Health Sciences Compensation
Plan.
Proposed revisions to APM
279-20 would change “Conditions of Employment” to
“Conditions of Appointment” because appointees in this
series are volunteers.
Proposed revisions to APM
360-80-a would set forth normal periods of
service at each rank and step for the Librarian series. The
periods are consistent with the periods set forth for unit
members in Article 4.C. of the Memorandum of Understanding
between the University of California and University Council
– American Federation of Teachers for the Professional
Librarian Unit.
Proposed revisions to APM
520-4 would add “child of a domestic partner” to
the definition of near relative.
Proposed revisions to APM
710-14 would add a footnote to indicate that the
Postgraduate Research and Visiting (_________) –
Postdoctoral titles will be removed from the list of
eligible titles for sick leave as of January 1, 2010.
Removal of these titles is consistent with Section 5 of the
Transition Guidelines in APM 390 (Postdoctoral Scholars),
Appendix A. Revisions to APM 710-14 would also add “Project
(e.g., Scientist) Series” to the list of Fiscal Year
academic titles that are eligible to accrue sick leave.
APM 710-38 would
add “domestic partner (same-sex or opposite-sex)” to conform
with APM 715 (Leaves of Absence/Family and Medical Leave).
APM 710-46
would correct the reference from APM 145-7 to APM 145-36,
which has been renumbered.
Proposed new APM 765
implements Section 103.8 of the Standing Orders of The
Regents (Death Benefit) and to clarify eligibility criteria
for academic appointees. This proposal is consistent with
Personnel Policies for Staff Members Section 83 (Death
Payments).
These policies would apply to non-exclusively represented
academic employees. The proposal is also available online
at:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/rev-110-4-etc.html
Thank
you for your attention to this matter. Please return any
comments to me on or before
Friday, June 15, 2007.
Sincerely,
Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor
Academic Personnel
Enclosure
P L E A S E P O S T
April 19, 2006
DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS and DIRECTORS
Re: Proposed Revisions to APM 700 and 710; Proposed New 080
and 711
Enclosed for formal review are two proposed policy revisions
and two new proposed policies. These proposals have been
developed in response to campus requests to clarify policy
governing paid sick leave for academic appointees who do not
accrue sick leave and to develop new policies for reasonable
accommodation, medical separation, and constructive
resignation.
The proposed changes are to:
Ô
APM 700 −
Leaves of Absence/General
Ô
APM 710 −
Leaves of Absence/Sick Leave
Ô
New APM 080
− Medical Separation
Ô
New APM 711
− Reasonable Accommodation for Academic Appointees with
Disabilities
Proposed revisions to APM 700, Leaves of Absence/General,
adds a new concept of constructive resignation for faculty
who are absent without approval or do not return to assigned
duties after an approved leave of absence for non-health
reasons.
The proposed revisions to APM 710, Leaves of Absence/Sick
Leave, provides guidelines for the amount of paid sick leave
that may be granted to academic appointees who do not accrue
sick leave and for how and when medical information should
be requested. The sick leave proposal provides a maximum of
six-months of paid sick leave within the first 10 years of
employment to academic appointees with less than 10 years of
UC service in titles that do not accrue sick leave.
Appointees who do not accrue sick leave and who have more
than 10 years of service would receive a maximum of one year
paid sick leave in a 10-year period. To put this in
context, please note that other UC academic and staff
appointees accrue 12 days of sick leave per year and it
takes almost 22 years for appointees to accumulate one year
of paid sick leave.
Proposed new policy APM 080, Medical Separation, outlines the
process for a medical separation of academic appointees who
have exhausted sick leave and continue to be unable to work
for health reasons and for whom reasonable accommodation is
not possible.
Proposed new policy, APM 711, Reasonable Accommodation for
Academic Appointees with Disabilities, provides guidance for
reasonable accommodation.
Please make these proposed policies available to your faculty
and other interested parties for comment. Opinions of
faculty members are of particular importance, given the
central role of shared governance in the University.
However, your final response should convey your opinion of
the impact of this policy from an administrative point of
view. Individual faculty members with concerns about these
policies should forward their comments to Academic Senate
leadership.
The proposed policies are available online at:
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/rev-700-etc.html
Thank you for your attention to this
matter. Please return any comments to me on or before
Friday, June 16,
2006.
Sincerely
yours,
Donna L.
Vredevoe, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor
Academic Personnel
Enclosure
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