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VOL. 24. NO.3 OCTOBER 7, 2003

campus briefs

LABOR NEWS

The University Professional and Technical Employees/Communication Workers of America (UPTE/CWA) filed a petition May 29 with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) requesting an election to determine if a new unit of UC’s Administrative Professional staff wish to be exclusively represented by UPTE. The union has since provided signed authorization cards showing proof of support by 30% of the employees who would be in that unit. The Office of the President and UPTE representatives are now meeting to determine whether the proposed bargaining unit is appropriately constituted. If no agreement is reached, the matter will be decided by PERB and a date for a representation election, overseen by PERB, will be set, with notices posted. UC is encouraging all affected employees to become informed and vote. To find out more, go to http://atyourservice.ucop.edu. Click on Labor Relations. Then click on Administrative Professionals (99) Unit Election, listed under current news and events.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

After extensive consultations with the faculty and endorsement by the systemwide Academic Senate, UC has finalized a new statement on academic freedom for its faculty. Known as Academic Personnel Policy (APM) 010, the statement establishes that faculty have primary responsibility for articulating the professional standards by which academic freedom may be sustained. The policy is intended to be read in conjunction with APM 015, the Faculty Code of Conduct, which includes a delineation of faculty responsibilities to their students. The statement does not change the authority of the UC Board of Regents to govern the university nor the responsibility of the administration to perform its appropriate role in governance. To learn more about the new statement, visit www.ucop.edu/ucophome/coordrev/policy/9-29-03.html.

PENDING DEPARTURE

After seven years of helping ASUCLA achieve a financial turnaround, Executive Director Patricia Eastman recently announced she will leave at the end of the year. “The seven years that I have spent with the association have been wonderful, challenging and rewarding,” she said. “Now it is time for me to move on to the next position. I am considering several opportunities, all of which are exciting and professionally challenging.” Eastman was brought in during 1996 when ASUCLA was running a $3.5-million deficit, had a dilapidated infrastructure and “was unable to fund some of the basic student union functions that form the core of the association’s contributions to campus,” she said. Today, it is operating in the black and has a cash reserve of $9 million.