At the Council on Rights, Responsibilities and Welfare's October 12 meeting, a proposal to change the Council name to Council on Faculty Welfare, Rights and Responsibilities was unanimously approved. The proposed name would more closely identify UCI's committee with the other UC campus committees and the University Committee on Faculty Welfare.
Strikeouts indicate present wording to be deleted, and underlining indicates the proposed wording.
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.