Furloughs at UC

 
Provost Pitts’ Open Letter to the Faculty Dateline UC Davis, Sept. 10, 2009 UCOP Q&A on Furloughs UCSC Senate Chair to UCSC Chancellor Blumenthal: Response of UCSC Senate Exec. Committee to Interim Provost Pitts’ Furlough Plan August 27, 2009 UCB EVC Breslauer’s Letter to Faculty on Furloughs, Aug. 24, 2009 See also http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/news/budget/ Interim Provost Pitts to UC Chancellors on Furlough, with the response of Mary Croughan, Chair of the Council Aug. 23, 209 Memo from UCOP barring furloughs on teaching days Aug. 21, 2009 Teaching or Furlough Days The author of this posts teaches at UC Davis, where a poll conducted by the Academic Senate came to this conclusion: Nearly 82% of respondents believe that faculty should schedule furlough days on days they teach. Just over 18% disagreed. And 426 people voted. UCI Professors Call for a State Tax Increase UC President Yudof’s Decision to Furlough Faculty Yudof’s Recommendations to the UC Regents For UC Regents’ Meetings, to be voted on July 17, 2009 Sliding scale furloughs for employees: from 4% for those making less than $40,000; 5-9% for those in the middle salary ranges; and 10% for those making over $240,000. Included compensation includes base pay, similar forms of regular pay and stipends, except as otherwise exempted, whether that income is derived from state funds, student fees, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, auxiliary enterprises or other fund sources. For health science compensation plan faculty, their UCRP covered compensation--X and X prime, but not the negotiated Y and Z--will be reduced by the amount specified for fiscal year faculty. Exempt academic and staff employees whose salaries are funded from research contracts and grants. Furlough days off would vary by salary: between $90,000 and $180,000 salaries, academic year faculty would have 14 furlough days. About 360 Senior Mgmt employees will have their furlough day allocations capped at 10 days regardless of their respective salary reduction. Pay cuts of 5% already taken by UC executives, including Yudof, would count toward the new cut. The plan will go into effect on Sept. 1 and last for one year. An Open Letter to The Regents of the University of California by Professor George Lakoff, UC Berkeley, Goldman Dist. Prof. of Cognitive Sci. & Linguistics, July 13, 2009 Excerpt from Professor Lakoff’s Letter: “The University has an overall $19 billion budget. The salary cuts for faculty and staff of $195 million represents about one percent of the overall budget. Is that one percent cut the best place to cut one percent?” Your Comments? http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=11843&fu=091109http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/budget/?page_id=87Furlough_files/SEC%20Pitts%20Response%20Final.pdfFurlough_files/SEC%20Pitts%20Response%20Final.pdfFurlough_files/UCBBreslauer8-24.pdfhttp://newscenter.berkeley.edu/news/budget/Furlough_files/PittsOnFurloughs.pdfFurlough_files/PittsOnFurloughs.pdfFurlough_files/Teaching%20during%20furloughs.pdfhttp://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/but-what-of-the-children-who-will-speak-for-them/#more-10465Furlough_files/Orange%20County%20RegisterUCI.pdfFurlough_files/Yudof%27sRectoUCRegentsforMeet7-15.pdfFurlough_files/Lakeoff%20to%20RegentsLetter.2.pdfshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12
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