Category: News & Updates

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″] DEANS CHAIRS CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICERS As the Office of Academic Personnel prepares for the implementation of the retroactive pay announced on October 15, 2020, as part of the COVID-19 stop the clock (COVID-STC) program at UCI, we are providing the following clarifications to this program. The retroactive pay component was added to…Continue Reading COVID-19 Stop the Clock Retroactive Pay Implementation

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″] DEANS DEPARTMENT CHAIRS As part of the current Memorandum of Understanding between the University and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), each UC campus has provided a Professional Development Fund for Non-Senate Instructional Faculty covered by the agreement. For the 2020-2021 year, at the Irvine Campus, all Non-Senate Instructional Unit (Unit 18) appointees…Continue Reading Non-Senate Instructional Unit (Unit 18) Professional Development Funds

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″]Responsible Office: Academic Personnel Issued: December 1, 2020 A. Purpose and Scope Pursuant to President Napolitano’s Executive Order of July 31, 2020, it is mandatory for all employees to comply with the mandate to receive the flu vaccine, a medical exemption, or a religious or disability accommodation to visit or work on-site at…Continue Reading Flu Vaccination Compliance Guidelines for Faculty and Other Academic Appointees

Chief Personnel Officers and Academic Senior Managers, Academic appointees affected by the recent Wildfires are eligible to utilize the UCI Employee Wildfire Support Program. Consistent with the guidelines for this support program, academic appointees who are required to report leave taken in the UCI Time Reporting System may request, with their supervisor’s approval, to use…Continue Reading Wildfire Resources For UCI Employees

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″] DEANS FACULTY ADMINISTRATORS (100% TIME) The following policies have been issued and revised, Academic Personnel Manual (APM) Section 240, Deans (APM – 240), and Section 246, Faculty Administrators (100% Time) (APM – 246). The revised policies, effective immediately, may be found online on the Academic Personnel and Programs website. The revised policies…Continue Reading Issuance of Revisions to Academic Personnel Manual (APM): APM-240, Deans and APM-246, Faculty Administrators (100% Time)

Chief Personnel Officers, In our March 25, 2020 communication, the Council on Academic Personnel and the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel conveyed that student evaluations of teaching for Winter quarter, 2020 and Spring quarter, 2020 will be excluded from future review files unless an individual faculty member chooses to include them. This is also being…Continue Reading Exclusion of Student Evaluations – Winter, Spring, and Fall 2020

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″]DEANS CHAIRS EQUITY ADVISORS CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICERS In March 2020, UC Office of the President issued an executive order to provide all eligible employees a one-time allotment of up to 128 hours of paid administrative leave to address the extraordinary demands placed on UC employees due to impacts related to COVID-19 on themselves…Continue Reading Extension of COVID-19 UC Expanded Paid Administrative Leave (EPAL)

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”#000000″] DEANS DEPARTMENT CHAIRS EQUITY ADVISORS CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICERS ACADEMIC SENIOR MANAGERS We are pleased to inform you of a new program to support faculty in light of COVID-19 pandemic, the UC Irvine Interim COVID-19 Modified Duties Shared Funding Program (ICMD), developed in consultation with Deans, Academic Senate Leadership and School Equity Advisors,…Continue Reading Interim COVID-19 Modified Duties Shared Funding Program for Assistant Rank Faculty

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”#000000″] Leave-Related Policies of the APM 700 Series The University invites comments on proposed revisions to following leave-related policies of the 700 series of the Academic Personnel Manual: APM – 700, Leaves of Absence/General; APM – 710, Leaves of Absence/Sick Leave/Medical Leave; APM – 715, Leaves of Absence/Family and Medical Leave; APM –…Continue Reading Systemwide Review of Proposed Revisions to Academic Personnel Manual (APM)

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”#000000″] CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICERS In March 2020, UCI announced a COVID-19 stop the clock (COVID-STC) provision that applies to all currently employed faculty members at the Assistant rank (who were employed in March 2020) in the following series: Professor/Professor of Teaching/Professor In Residence/Professor of Clinical X, Health Sciences Clinical Professor (at more than…Continue Reading COVID-19 Stop the Clock (COVID-STC) Updates and Reminders