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<p class="MsoNormal">I am forwarding a special meeting that is taking place tomorrow for the Academic Senate Assembly for UC. Details are below and attached. Feel free to listen in if your schedule permits.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Paige Mejia, MBA</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mcsball <mcsball-bounces@lists.ucr.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>MCSB Chair via mcsball<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 16, 2025 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Faculty and Employees <mcsball@lists.ucr.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mcsball] Fwd: January 17 Special Meeting of the Academic Senate Assembly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Special Meeting of the Academic Senate Assembly will happen tomorrow, Jan 17 starting at 3 PM. The Zoom link can be found below. Have a look at the attached pdf file that contains the meeting agenda. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This special meeting is meant to address a number of somewhat contentious issues that impinge on faculty welfare, including faculty compensation and cost of living increases, cybersecurity measures being imposed related to use of computers
and the internet, and steeply increasing cost of health care for UC faculty. There is a prevailing feeling among many faculty that decisions made by UC admin regarding these issues have not included enough in the way of “shared governance”, that almost mythical
UC tradition that we all love but suspect is often overlooked by our leaders.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Walter Leal at UC Davis has been a prime mover in getting faculty mobilized to address these issues and hence the special meeting scheduled for tomorrow was called. It should be interesting and we all can attend on Zoom.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Michael E. Adams, Ph.D<br>
Chair, Dept. of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology<br>
Dept. of Entomology<br>
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<a href="mailto:mcsbchair@ucr.edu">mcsbchair@ucr.edu</a><br>
951-827-4746 (Office)<br>
951-750-3707 (Mobile)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Walter Leal <<a href="mailto:wsleal@ucdavis.edu">wsleal@ucdavis.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Subject: January 17 Special Meeting of the Academic Senate Assembly</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Date: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">January 8, 2025 at 1:50:10 PM PST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">To: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Walter Leal <<a href="mailto:wsleal@ucdavis.edu">wsleal@ucdavis.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Colleagues, you indicated that you were interested in attending the January 17 Special Meeting of the Assembly of the Academic Senate. I promised to share the link (to the Zoom call) with you; here it
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Meeting Details:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Join via video and internet audio:<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://ucop.zoom.us/j/6568908103?pwd=a1U1RWRVTVp1emc0akg1V3V6N0tKdz09">https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/6568908103?pwd=a1U1RWRVTVp1emc0akg1V3V6N0tKdz09</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Meeting ID: 656 890 8103</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The agenda and documents are important; see attachment.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The meeting petitioners asked the Chair to share the agenda in advance and to allow equal time for faculty questions and administration "presentations." The response we received appears below my signature. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Many of you have been asking what happened with the Vote of No Confidence at UC Davis. We, too, have the same type of question. The delay in releasing the results is perplexing. The last time we had a similar
vote here, the results were released within hours. This time, weeks have passed, and we do not know the outcome. It was also odd that the Divisional Chair shared with the entire faculty "an analysis" of the resolution by a UCOP staff member. Even more surprising,
the Divisional Chair (whom I believe is well-meaning) denied a group of Senate faculty to present a point-by-point rebuttal to the "analysis" through the same channel provided for a nonmember of the Division. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All the best, WL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#242424">Thank you for your message. My aim is to lead a respectful and engaged Special Meeting of the Assembly on January 17th. Following the relevant Senate bylaws, the meeting
agenda will be shared with Assembly members at least 10 calendar days before the Assembly is convened. I will ask administrative colleagues to address their respective topics succinctly, followed by Q&A. With respect to the duration of interchanges, I will
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