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Proposed Presidential Policy on
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Applies To: All campus affiliates (students and employees) and non-affiliates.
Brief Description: This proposed new UC policy includes the following key issues:
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Interim UC Merced Policy on Withdrawal of Consent to Remain on University Property
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Applies To: All campus affiliates (students and employees) and non-affiliates.
Brief Description: This interim UC Merced policy outlines implementing procedures of Penal Code Sections 626.4(a) and 626.6 on University Property for the University of California, Merced campus. |
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Proposed Revised Presidential Policy BUS-63: Risk Transfer and Insurance Requirements |
Applies To: UC community members who enter into a contract with Contractors/External Users which may include commencing work, providing goods, or using University facilities.
Brief Description: This UC policy establishes the required indemnification and insurance provisions to be included in contracts between the University and contractors or external parties. |
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Proposed Rescission of Presidential Policy, A-60: Short-Term Investment Pool (STIP)-Distribution of Income
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Brief Description: This UC policy is outdated and no longer reflects current practices. The Responsible Office as well as UC locations have requested that the policy be rescinded and allowed to implement their own local policies and processes.
Detailed information regarding the rescission can be found on the following site: Review of Additions/Updates/Revisions to Presidential Policies | UCOP. |
Review Ended
March 20, 2025
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Proposed UC Merced Policy on Assurance of Safety Standards in Academic Settings
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Applies To: All Personnel including faculty, staff, students, and visitors. All teaching and research conducted in academic settings, including research and teaching laboratories, research fieldwork, shared research support facilities, and machine shops used for teaching and research-related activities. This Policy does not apply to shops operated by Facilities Management, the UCM Central Plant, construction sites, or other non-academic operations.
Brief Description: This proposed UC Merced policy establishes a process for identifying and correcting safety deficiencies and issues of non-compliance to ensure a healthy and safe working environment in laboratories, shops, and other academic settings such as research in the field. |
Review Ended
March 31, 2025
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Interim UC Merced Policy on Consensual Relationships
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Applies To: All members of the university community, including staff, faculty, students, and non-affiliates.
Brief Description: This interim UC Merced policy is intended to clarify expectations and to support staff and faculty in avoiding professional conflicts of interest related to Consensual Relationships. |
Review Ended
April 18, 2025
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Proposed Revised Presidential Policy on Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential
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Applies To: All research, regardless of funding source, conducted at any UC Location (campus or Health Center, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR)) that may involve Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) or Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP), which is life sciences research that can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be intentionally misused to pose a significant threat, with broad potential consequences, to public health and safety, agriculture, food security, economic security, or national security.
Brief Description: This UC policy revises the current UC Dual Use Research of Concern Policy with new and updated provisions, per the White House communication on dual use research issued May 6, 2024. Specifically, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP) (USG Policy). The proposed policy will implement the changes made by the new USG Policy, and it includes the following:
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Review Ended
March 14, 2025
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Proposed Revised Presidential Policy on the Use of Animals in Research, Teaching, and Testing
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Applies To: All UC faculty, staff, and students who are conducting Animal
Activities (as defined in this Policy) within the course and scope of their University duties or studies, and to non-UC persons (such as volunteers or visiting scholars) participating in UC Animal Activities. Brief Description: The proposed UC policy would update and replace the current policy, “Use of Animals in Research and Teaching”. The revised policy:
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Review Ended
March 6, 2025
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Proposed Revised Presidential Policy on Seismic Safety
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Applies To: All University Facilities of the University of California within California except 1) those under the regulatory authority of the Office of Statewide Hospital Planning and Development or 2) K-12 schools or community college facilities built after 2018 under the regulatory authority of the Division of the State Architect.
Brief Description: The purpose of this Policy is to provide an acceptable level of earthquake safety for students, employees, and the public who occupy University Facilities located in California. The policy is proposed to be revised and includes the following key issues:
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Review Ended
November 1, 2024
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Applies To: All University Employees, Students and Non-Affiliates, as well as all areas of university operations, programs, and facilities, including off-campus locations where university programs and business are conducted.
Brief Description: This policy is designed to protect and promote the rights of members of the university community, including the right to freedom of expression, to prevent interference with university functions or activities, to protect university facilities and to assure compliance with all pertinent laws and other applicable University policies. Updates align with mandatory directives issued by the UC Office of the President and include:
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Review Ended
December 23, 2024
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