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Dear Prof. Costa and other Senate colleagues,
Thank you for your email message, below. As you are aware, the Senate has received a number of presentations from the administration regarding the proposal to build a Residential Conference Center/Faculty Club on the site of the present Faculty Center. Presentations that were given over the past year are documented at our Senate website at http://www.senate.ucla.edu/
As you also may be aware, at the “Save the Faculty Center” meeting on January 24, I publicly issued an invitation for the UCLA administration as well as to Prof. Dick Weiss, the President of the Faculty Center Association, to provide our Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget with presentations on the financial feasibility plans for both entities. Our regulations are such that CPB “specifically reviews and formally articulates a Senate view regarding the campus budget and each major campus space-use and building project at each project's proposal, planning, and building stages” (http://www.senate.ucla.edu/
CPB is now in the process of evaluating the materials provided at the meeting, in addition to new materials, in order to articulate the Senate view on this proposed project. Most of the materials that were considered by CPB at the February 28 meeting are now posted on the Senate website at http://www.senate.ucla.edu/
I hope that the above discussion is helpful to all of you in understanding the Senate process that we are following in evaluating this proposed building project for this campus. There have been a great many proposals that have come before the UCLA Academic Senate this year, some of them with profound implications for the future of our University and the way it operates. In evaluating these proposals, like the RCC/FC proposal, we follow procedures that have served UCLA well for over 90 years. More information on these many issues may be found on our Senate website at http://www.senate.ucla.edu/ .
Sincerely,
Ann Karagozian
Chair, UCLA Academic Senate
From: Dora Costa [mailto:costa@econ.ucla.edu]Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 9:07 PM
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Subject: petition to CPB and FW on proposed RCC/hotel
The current faculty center is scheduled to be demolished in April 2012 to make room for a 282 room residential conference facility/hotel. The faculty center has been instructed to accept no reservations after December 2011.
The financial feasibility report on the residential conference facility has not yet been released, nor has the university released information on the nightly cost of a room. A recent gift of $40 million will go to construction but the remaining $120 million will be financed by bonds that are expected to be repaid through rental and room revenue.
The current faculty center has been a remarkably effective tool in recruiting new faculty and in fostering department cohesion. There are few other universities where department members regularly go as a group to lunch, and even fewer where potential junior and senior recruits can eat outside in January and February.
There has been no public discussion of what temporary space for the faculty center would look like, what space in the new faculty center would look like, and whether the proposed residential conference facility makes financial sense.
We are proposing that there be a period of open public discussion with all financial data and plans available on the web for viewing and commenting. To maintain the faculty center on a sound financial footing, we are asking that the faculty center be allowed to accept reservations until a faculty vote in the Academic Senate decides in favor of the Residential Learning/conference center. We risk losing one of the most effective parts of UCLA for a future financial drain. In this era of budget cuts and increased student fees it is incumbent on the faculty to be proactive in leading this debate. The Academic Senate must allow a public discussion for its members and it must let the Faculty Center resume operations until all concerned parties have come to an informed decision.
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