RE: Annual Report of the Committee on Elections, Rules, and Jurisdiction
1998-99 (DRAFT)

In addition to supervising the normal election for Committee on Committees, this Committee:

1. Advised campus Administration on the question of authority over the titles of degree programs. The Committee ruled that the Regents' Standing Orders gave to the Administration responsibility for naming academic departments and programs, but that the Senate has authority over the names of degree programs.

2. Advised systemwide Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction with regard to a proposal jointly to appoint faculty with Stanford University to the UCSF/Stanford Health Care facility. The Committee ruled that such appointments did not conflict with any Divisional Bylaws or Regulations, but raised some significant issues of faculty welfare.

3. Reconsidered ASR 630 (A). The Committee's Annual Report of 1997-8 referred erroneously to this as a Divisional Regulation, and noted that the Committee would recommend to the Divisional Assembly that it be amended. A proposed amendment clarifying the restriction of the number of Summer Session units that may be counted in the last 45 quarter units toward the Bachelor's degree was forwarded to the systemwide Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction. That Committee rejected the proposed clarification on the grounds that it was not necessary.
4. Advised the Committee on Courses of Instruction with respect to the following matters:
   1. Reaffirmed that Committee on Courses has authority for regulating the use and qualifications of undergraduate students who are used as Teaching Assistants in Senate courses.

   2. Reaffirmed, when confronted by the Teaching Assistant labor strike, that the Committee on Courses had sole authority to suspend final examinations.

   3. Considered the matter of authority for reviewing courses offered by professional schools that offered undergraduate courses. Ruled that Committee on Courses could delegate review authority, but could not relinquish it.

   4. Reviewed Committee on Courses' operational definition of 300 series courses. Concluded that the definition in use was consistent with legislation.

   5. Considered the question of Committee on Courses review authority over the qualifications of temporary lecturers. Ruled that if a department or program appoints a Lecturer, and the appropriate Senate personnel committee concurs, Committee on Courses has no authority for further review.

5. Advised the Committee on Public Service with regard to the proposed amendment of DDB 88. The amendment reduced the number of Senate members of the Committee to five. The amendment was adopted by the Representative Assembly.

6. Advised the Divisional Committee on Research with respect to proposed amendments to DDB 99. Amendments are pending.

7. Supervised the mail ballot on the Burma Memorial.

8. As the result of a request from a faculty member for a ruling, recommended an amendment to DD Guideline 7. Proposed an amendment allowing instructors to request that students who had not completed published prerequisites in courses in which prerequisites are critical be dropped from the course. The amendment was adopted by the Representative Assembly.

9. Responded to the request from Divisional Vice Chair Vohs to develop legislation that would provide for an orderly succession of officers. Proposed amending DDB 11 (A) and 12 (B), and adding paragraphs (C, D) to DDB 12 and paragraph (J) to DDB 40 to establish succession to Divisional offices vacated by resignation, disability, or death of incumbents. Proposal was adopted by the Representative Assembly.

10. Reviewed proposals for providing departmental status to the Program in Linguistics and for renaming the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing. Advised that the proposals were consistent with legislation.

11. Reviewed proposal to amend DD Guideline 15 (A) by eliminating the notation E-NWS from final transcripts. Advised that the proposal is consistent with existing legislation. Proposal was amended further by the Representative Assembly, which voted to eliminate the notation.

12. Ruled on the proposal made by the Divisional Committee on Faculty Welfare to create a Special Committee on Parking at the Representative Assembly Meeting, April 19. Advised that inadequate notice had been provided the assembly; the proposal nevertheless was adopted by the Representative Assembly.

13. Ruled that, consistent with DDB 180, 185, and 190, proposals to extend, amend , or repeal Bylaws and Regulations may not be adopted at the same meeting of the Representative Assembly at which they are proposed unless notice is provided to all Senate members at least five days in advance.

14. Reviewed the document "Compendium of Universitywide Review Processes for Academic Programs, Academic Units, and Research Units" that has been adopted by the Academic Council. Found that it is consistent with Divisional Bylaws and Regulations, with one exception: Provision No. 8 of the Compendium proposes that changes in the names of undergraduate degree programs must be approved by campus administration as well as by the appropriate Senate committees. Divisional CERJ believes that Provision contradicts Regents' Standing Orders 105.2 (a, b) and 110.1, which give the Senate sole authority over degree programs, and does not conform to established Divisional practice.

    Respectfully submitted,

    Kevin Hoover
    Karl Zender
    William Davis, Chair