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News & Announcements
Academic Council Statement on the University’s Collective Bargaining Negotiations with “Unit 18” Lecturers
Posted: January 9, 2020
Academic Council Statement on Supporting Alternative Access to Elsevier Journals
The linked statement has been endorsed by the UC Academic Council in response to Elsevier’s decision to discontinue, effective today, UC’s direct access to new journal articles via Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform.
The statement includes links to an explainer web page developed by the California Digital Library and the UC Libraries on how researchers can find articles in other ways, as well as a CDL FAQ page that provides context.
Posted: July 10, 2019
UC Santa Barbara has signed the OA2020 Expression of Interest
Posted: March 6, 2019
University of California Academic Council Statement on the University’s Negotiations with Elsevier Publishing
Posted: February 28, 2019
Duncan Mellichamp Receives Oliver Johnson Award
The Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate is given every two years to a faculty member who has provided outstanding service to the Academic Senate. It is the highest honor given by the Academic Senate, at the systemwide level, to one of its members.
Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp is a worthy and appropriate recipient of this award, both for his service as Chair of the systemwide Academic Senate in 1996-97 and his service as Chair of UC Santa Barbara's Academic Senate in 1990-92. Professor Mellichamp was one of six founding faculty members of the Chemical Engineering Department in 1965. Professor Mellichamp has amassed an exceptionally dedicated record of service to both UCSB and the UC for over the past 50 years. During his time as Academic Council Chair, he initiated processes to assess how effectively the Senate represents faculty interests in areas where administration has primary responsibility. The Task Force on Governance, established by the Academic Council in November 1996, represented the first full-scale review of the organization and operations of the University- wide Senate to be conducted in more than three decades.
Professor Mellichamp’s service in the University-wide Senate is perhaps most remembered by his very strong advocacy with the Regents for the inclusion of “same-sex” domestic partners in UC employee benefits. To quote from the November 1997 issue of the Notice of the Academic Senate. "The Regents’ September consideration of this proposal was an outgrowth of an extended discussion they had regarding domestic partners in July. That discussion, in turn, was prompted by an earlier plea from last year’s Academic Council Chair, Duncan Mellichamp, that the board take the issue up.” Professor Mellichamp’s early (and ultimately successful) advocacy for this position is yet another testimony to his exceptionally strong ethics and sense of academic community.
The systemwide Senate website has more information about the Oliver Johnson Award.
Posted: May 17, 2018
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