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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Miscellaneous

When the systemwide Assembly of the Academic Senate met on Oct. 9, one of the items on the agenda was the report of the University Committee on Faculty Welfare (UCFW) for last academic year.*

Many of the items discussed in that report were things you might expect, such as the rising cost of health insurance. However, the report also contained a listing of some miscellaneous items that came up, some of which you might not expect:

- the continuing effects of the still relatively new graduate student contract,

- ongoing reviews of the performance of the Retirement Administration Service Center (RASC),

- the implementation of new legislative mandates around the disclosure of substantiated findings of misconduct during hiring,

- the implementation of new legislative requirements for letters of recommendation,

- new onerous requirements for faculty recalled shortly after retiring,

- the effects of budget cuts on faculty morale, workloads, and working conditions,

- the implementation of Trelix and systemwide policies on cybersecurity,

- rising hate speech against faculty in student evaluations,

- problems related to affordable childcare and housing access.

Today's miscellaneous issues may become tomorrow's major issues.

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*https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/assembly/assembly-agenda-10-9-25.pdf.

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