Category: News & Updates

As we near the end of the academic year, we would like to share the UCPath processing procedures for academic appointees who are retiring and/or will be eligible for an Emerita/Emeritus or Recall appointment. Emerita/Emeritus Status UCPath Entry for Emerita/Emeritus Status: Since it is not considered “employment,” department initiators may enter the Emerita/Emeritus job without…Continue Reading Emerita/Emeritus Status: UCPath Entry/Update, Conferral of Emerita/Emeritus Titles, and Recall Appointments

[su_note note_color=”#bcceda”] Dear Colleagues, The UC systemwide Academic Senate’s University Committee on Faculty Welfare Task Force on Investment and Retirement (UCFW-TFIR) developed a planning model to help new UC employees hired after July 1, 2016 make informed retirement plan decisions. The systemwide Academic Council has endorsed the model, agreeing that it will be valuable to…Continue Reading Planning Model for 2016 University of California Retirement Plan

[su_note note_color=”#bcceda”] ACADEMIC DEANS DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Michael T. Brown convened a systemwide joint Senate-Administration Taskforce to review the Negotiated Salary Trial Program (NSTP). The Taskforce has made its recommendation to institutionalize the program into Academic Personnel Manual (APM) policy and create a permanent negotiated salary plan. Attached…Continue Reading Systemwide Review of Proposed Implementation of the Negotiated Salary Trial Program (NSTP) into the Academic Personnel Manual (APM)

Academic Summer Salary information for 2022 has now been updated on the AP website at: https://ap.uci.edu/compensation/summer-compensation/ GUIDELINES The 2022 summer service period begins June 13, 2022 and ends September 16, 2022. Please continue to refer to the summer additional compensation guidelines in the Academic Personnel Procedures Manual (APP), when processing summer salary. APP 9-50 provides…Continue Reading Academic Summer Salary 2022

This is a reminder that Deans may earn additional compensation for summer research or Summer Session teaching, per APM 240-18-e: Additional University Compensation. Summer Research Deans may receive up to 1/12th payment for summer research based on their annual decanal salary. In such instances, accrued vacation shall be used in proportion to the research days…Continue Reading Summer Compensation for Deans

[su_note note_color=”#bcceda”] APM – 715, Leaves of Absence/Family and Medical Leave APM – 760, Family Accommodations for Childbearing and Childrearing The University invites comments on proposed revisions to Sections 715 and 760 of the Academic Personnel Manual: APM – 715, Leaves of Absence/Family and Medical Leave APM – 760, Family Accommodations for Childbearing and Childrearing…Continue Reading Systemwide Review of Proposed Revisions to Academic Personnel Manual (APM): 715 & 760

Pursuant to the Postdoctoral Scholars’ Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of California and the UAW union, Article 4, Compensation, the salary scales for Postdoctoral Scholar salary/stipend minimum rates have been adjusted in accordance with the newly revised fiscal year 2022 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award stipend levels….Continue Reading Postdoctoral Scholar Salary Scales

ACADEMIC DEANS DEPARTMENT CHAIRS CHIEF PERSONNEL OFFICERS Student evaluations of teaching for Spring Quarter 2022 classes will not have the COVID-19 watermark. Sincerely, Diane K. O’Dowd Vice Provost for Academic Personnel…Continue Reading Student Evaluations of Teaching — COVID-19 Watermark Update

[su_note note_color=”#dbe2ed” text_color=”000000″] To support Unit 18 contract implementation, Academic Personnel is hosting bi-weekly office hours beginning Monday, March 14, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Chairs, Directors, and Department Academic Personnel staff are invited to attend and ask questions or listen and learn from colleagues. The Zoom link for this series is below….Continue Reading Unit 18 Office Hours

DEANS DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Effective February 19, 2022 through September 30, 2022, the University of California is providing up to 80 hours of 2022 Emergency Paid Sick Leave (2022 EPSL) for full-time employees and the two-week equivalent for part-time employees (staff and academic employees, including represented, student, and healthcare employees). The 2022 EPSL provides the following:…Continue Reading 2022 Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL)