Regents Briefing

A recap of actions taken by University of California Regents at the Jan. 15-16 meeting at UC San Francisco.

PRESIDENT ATKINSON OUTLINES NEW OUTREACH INITIATIVE

UC President Richard C. Atkinson outlined a new outreach initiative to help prepare more California students for a university education. Atkinson told Regents on Thursday (Jan. 15) that the Outreach Action Plan is UC’s next step to develop new directions and funding to improve educational experience and preparation of K-12 students. The main elements of the plan are:

• The appointment of Karl S. Pister, chancellor emeritus of UC Santa Cruz, as senior associate to the president to coordinate outreach activities across the university, oversee efforts to acquire funds to implement recommendations of the UC Outreach Task Force and assist in accelerating work on UC outreach efforts. Pister will report directly to Provost C. Judson King and Atkinson.

• A funding strategy fueled by investment from the university, state and federal governments, the California public school system and private sources. For the next fiscal year, Atkinson committed an additional $2 million for outreach from internally allocated university funds. This, together with the $5 million increase to UC’s budget proposed by Gov. Pete Wilson, would bring the total of additional UC and state funding committed to outreach — at both the undergraduate and graduate level — to $12 million annually. Atkinson said UC is already working to raise more private funds for outreach and UC will initiate discussions with the Clinton administration and federal agencies to seek additional federal funds.

• Intensified efforts on the part of Atkinson and Regents, chancellors of UC’s nine campuses and UC faculty, students, staff and alumni. Atkinson cited as an example a letter he wrote to 13,000 California high school students encouraging them to apply to UC.

Atkinson intends to implement recommendations of the UC Outreach Task Force, which is a 32-member panel of Regents, UC faculty, staff and students, business and industry leaders and representatives of other education sectors and state agencies. The task force recommended that UC create partnerships with selected schools to improve their ability to educate and motivate students. Other recommendations included increased efforts to work with students to strengthen academic preparation and expanded UC research on the root causes of disparities in student motivation and achievement. UCLA and UC Davis made presentations to Regents describing the campuses’ outreach efforts.

UC CUTS UNDERGRADUATE FEE, HIKES NONRESIDENT TUITION

Regents approved a 5 percent cut in fees for undergraduate California residents, effective in fall 1998. The fee cut, called for by Assembly Bill 1318 which was approved by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Wilson, will reduce undergraduate student fees by $190 a year to an average $4,022, including mandatory and miscellaneous campus-based fees. The reduction comes on the heels of three consecutive years of no fee increases. Regents also approved a 4.5 percent increase in nonresident tuition. The $400 annual increase will bring out-of-state tuition to $9,384 a year.

Atkinson and budget director Larry Hershman also reviewed Gov. Wilson’s proposed 1998-99 state budget that calls for an 8 percent increase in state general funds for UC. The proposed $175 million increase in state funding would bring UC’s state funds to $2.3 billion next year.

APPOINTMENTS AND PERSONNEL

Regents approved the following personnel matters:

• The apppointment of two new vice presidents. Larry C. Hershman, associate vice president and director of the budget who has been with UC for 30 years, and Anne C. Broome, associate vice president for business and finance since 1994, received the title changes to more accurately reflect the magnitude of their responsibilities and to recognize their consistent superior performance. Both appointments, which do not include a salary increase, take effect Feb. 1.

• Annual salary of $174,200, effective Nov. 1, for Francine Chapman as associate director of managed care programs of UCLA Health System and UCLA Medical Group.

• Annual salary of $187,900, effective Nov. 1, for J. Michael McCoy as chief information officer and associate director for information systems of UCLA Health System and UCLA Medical Group.

• Salary increases for senior managers at the Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories.

• An amendment to UC policy to give the president authority to approve above-scale academic salaries of up to $156,100 for law, business, management and engineering and regular fiscal year faculty.

CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE

Regents approved the following construction and real estate matters:

• Purchase from Buzz Oates Enterprise of five acres in Sacramento, improved with a 106,832-square-foot office building, for the UC Davis Medical Center.

• Leasing of 85 acres on the Irvine campus to The Irvine Company for development of the University Research Park, a biomedical/high-technology complex.

• An amendment to the Budget for Capital Improvements and the Capital Improvement Program to include the Mission Bay Off-site Building IA for UC San Francisco and the San Rafael Student Housing Addition for UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Regents authorized UCSB to seek $42 million in external financing for the San Rafael housing, which will be supplemented by $3 million from the UC Housing System Net Revenue Fund.

• Certification of the environmental impact report and approved the master plan for student family housing at University Village and the Albany/Northwest Berkeley Properties for UC Berkeley. The project consists of 90 acres, located three miles northwest of the Berkeley campus in Albany and Berkeley.

• Certification of the environmental impact report for the North and West Campus Housing project at UC Santa Barbara and amended the campus Long Range Development Plan to reflect the project, which includes faculty and student housing. The 174 acres includes open space.

MISCELLANEOUS

Regents approved the following:

• Authorization for UC to join other higher education institutions to form the California Virtual University Foundation to support the California Virtual University in offering Web-based access to courses and programs offered by the institutions.

• Expansion of UCSD’s Knox-Keene license from the state Department of Corporations to allow UCSD Health Care to participate in the managed Medi-Cal program in San Diego County.

• The annual actuarial valuation report for the UC Retirement Plan.

• An amendment to the UC Tax-Deferred 403(b) Plan to allow beneficiaries of deceased members to leave plan accumulations on deposit, under certain conditions.

• An amendment to the UC Defined Contribution After-Tax Account to eliminate the current limit on contributions of 10 percent of gross annual salary and instead to reflect the Internal Revenue Code, which allows the lesser of $30,000 or 25 percent of annual salary.

• An amendment to the U.S. Department of Energy contracts for the Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories to increase the threshold for subcontracts requiring equal employment opportunity pre-award clearance to $10 million, up from $1 million.

• Appointment of Regent Carol Chandler to the committees on educational policy and oversight of the Department of Energy laboratories; Regent John F. Hotchkis to the committees on audit and educational policy; and the Regent Ralph M. Ochoa to the committees on grounds and buildings and health services.

Compiled by Communications Services, Office of the President laurie.itow@ucop.edu or (510) 987-9195 and phillip.torrez@ucop.edu or (510) 987-9205.

01/21/98 05:08:48 PM