Provide additional financial incentives to academic units to offer those course during Summer Session that have been identified as most important for helping students progress efficiently toward their degrees. Executive Vice Chancellor Lillyman reported that the Ad Hoc Study Group on Summer Session's report has been very helpful. Members of his office have been meeting with various deans and others to think about utilizing some of the ideas presented in the report. The proposal to change the Council's name was unanimously approved at the Council on Rights, Responsibilities and Welfare's October 12 meeting. The Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction approved the proposal to change Irvine Division Bylaw 122.
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The Council shall consider and report in timely fashion to the Divisional Senate Assembly of the Irvine Division and confer with and advise the Chancellor and other officers of the campus administration on matters concerned with the welfare and diversity of the faculty. This is inclusive of issues pertaining to faculty salaries, benefits, insurance, retirement, housing, parking, University community amenities, conditions of employment, and the status of women and minority affairs campuswide. The Council shall initiate studies or make recommendations with respect to any conditions within or without the University which in the judgment of the Council may affect the academic freedom of the University Community. Procedures for treating issues with a major welfare component relevant to this Council that are also the concern of other committees will be developed by the chairs of the committees involved, in consultation with the Chair of the Academic Senate, Irvine Division. The Council shall maintain liaison with Systemwide University Committee on Faculty Welfare, Committee on Academic Freedom, and Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity.