Campus Updates

• Personnel process• Task forces and retreats• Budget management• Cost savings from programmatic changes• Consultation process

Personnel Process Changes

• Dean’s concurrence• Ad hoc optional• Error correction• Monitoring

At this point, we are on schedule to finish by

end of spring quarter

Proposed Personnel Process Changes

• Greater use of career review• Consensus on salary inversion• More off-scale adjustments• 2004-05: 50% Vice Provost for merit review

Task Forces and Retreats

• Five Task Forces have been formed– Graduate recruiting and funding– Undergraduate recruiting– Freshman experience and retention– Marketing and communications– Subject A implementation

• Second retreat on March 5• Enrollment Management Advisory Committee

to monitor action plan progress

Budget Management

• Governor’s budget is our working guide• TA and RA funding increases taken off the top• Maintain commitment to funding enrollment

management plan• Selective outreach functions will be supported• Programmatic cuts are likely• Elimination of funding for about 100 faculty FTE• Cost savings through efficiencies will be stressed• Consultation process being developed

Budget Efficiencies

• Remedial education: probably about a $3M annual expense for English 1 and precursors– 45 FTE tied up in lecturers

• Conversion factor (total student units /15)– Falling steadily and currently about 0.91– Other UCs near 1.0– This costs us $7M/yr– Two pathways to improvement: different

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Course Units

UC Regulations of the Academic Senate: The value of a course in units shall be reckoned at the rate of one unit for three hours' work per week per term on the part of a student, or the equivalent.

• Chairs are directed to examine their courses to determine if any are candidates for increasing units, either by meeting this criteria or by adding sections

• Any unit changes must also be accompanied by an examination of the need for modification in the requirements for the major

Possible Consultation Process

• Early and continuous involvement of Academic Senate CPB and Advisory Committee

• Feedback downward to deans and other unit heads about magnitude and nature of the probable cuts

• Feedback upward to unit heads about priorities for hiring, staffing, initiatives, etc.

• Unit heads develop response scenarios• Some sort of budget summit to present and discuss

proposals• Final budgets worked out in G-3: (Chancellor, EVC,

Budget Director)