Visitors

Proposed revisions for visiting appointments [excerpt]:

The proposed substantive revisions are intended to clarify the appropriate use of the visiting title, remove the carve out for Visiting Assistant Professor Programs in Mathematics, and to remove the prohibition against appointees in a visiting title participating in a compensation plan.

Key Policy Revisions

The following key revisions are proposed:

• Substantive revisions to clarify Visiting appointments at the assistant rank are only appropriate if the visitor is on leave from an academic or research position at another education institution.

• Technical revision to remove the three-year carve out for Visiting Assistant Professor Programs in Mathematics due to the creation of the Math Fellow title.*

• Technical revision to remove language which prohibits Visiting appointees from participating in a Health Sciences or other special compensation plan because it conflicts with language in APM - 670, Health Sciences Compensation Plan (APM - 670-14-a-6).

Comments are due by July 16.

Source: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/systemwide-senate-review-apm-230.pdf.

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*Note: Math Fellows: As visiting assistant professors in mathematics join the postdoctoral scholars bargaining unit, there is support for changing their job title to “Math Fellow.” APP [Academic Personnel and Programs] has asked campus academic personnel offices to work with divisional Senates to seek exceptions to Senate Regulation 750.B to allow Math Fellows to serve as the instructor of record in courses. Senate faculty can serve as instructors of record in the interim, and the Academic Personnel Manual (APM) does not need to be modified to facilitate these changes because it does not explicitly list all covered titles.

Source: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/council/council-11-20-23-minutes.pdf.

Math Fellows: Visiting assistant professors in mathematics will join the postdoctoral scholars bargaining unit under the title “Math Fellow.” APP has asked individual campuses to collaborate with their divisional Senates to permit Math Fellows to serve as the instructor of record in courses until systemwide Senate Regulation 750.B can be revised. 

Source: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/council/council-12-13-23-minutes.pdf.