In an ongoing effort to study undergraduate student writing, the College Writing Programs is undertaking a research project to collect written assignments from faculty teaching undergraduate courses throughout the campus. The purposes of this research are to gain an accurate sense of the range and types of writing demands that students face in their undergraduate careers at Berkeley and to develop a collection of assignments that can be used to guide faculty in their work with students.

Please click on the following link (or paste the URL into your browser) to find a list of equivalencies negotiated by the lecturers' bargaining team with the UC Office of the President.

Lecturers' workload equivalencies list

The term "equivalency" refers to work in addition to your courses that must now be compensated if performance of those duties is "required or clearly expected" by your department. Some lecturers are already compensated by their departments for these activities as part of their appointment percentage. But if you're not compensated for these activities and want to be compensated for them, please let us know.

2007-2008 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (PDF)
FOR UC BERKELEY/UC SAN FRANCISCO LECTURERS

Applications are now being requested for the 2007-2008 round of PDF grant funding.

To find out what your raises will be in the next 3 years, lecturers should look up your annual FTE (full-time equivalent) salary, and count the number of semesters you have been teaching on campus. Then click on the link to the "2007 Lecturers' Contract Improvements" at the left under "Know Your Contract." (Links to the full texts of the new articles are at the bottom of the summary page). Then click on the link immediately below that to the New Lecturers' Salary Chart.

By Kevin Roddy, UC Davis Lecturer and UC-AFT Vice-President for Legislation

The UC-AFT continued to work on a number of fronts in order to improve working conditions for all employees at the University of California; such efforts included contacts with legislators, drafting specific bills, and joining forces with other unions in promoting common interests. In this we have been helped by the California Federation of Teachers lobbying staff in Sacramento: Judy Michaels, Mike Weimer, and Dolores Sanchez. We have also received counsel and aid from CFT Political Director Kenneth Burt.

Click here for cover sheet and checklist.

By Michelle Squitieri, Field Representative, UC-AFT Local 1474

This article attempts to clarify the complexities of the Lecturers' Professional Development Funding program, is a collaborative effort between the University administration (which funds and oversees the program), UC-AFT (which bargained for it, ensures compliance with the MOU, and helps publicize it), and the Professional Development Funding Committee (which establishes and revises procedures and allocates the funds, subject to approval by University administrators).

Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:51 PM
To: All UC lecturers
Subject: Health Benefits Settlement--$640,000 to be distributed to affected members of Unit 18

Attention NSF!

Some very good news (for a change)!