News

Provide important awareness to the campus community regarding the announcement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as it relates to (1) the ending of remote verification (e.g. via Zoom) in place of the physical examination of an employee’s identity/work authorization documentation (Federal Form I-9), and (2) the requirement to physically examine work authorization documents by August 30, 2023 for those individuals hired on/after March 20, 2020, and whose documents were examined remotely.

Linda Burton has decided to step down as the Dean of the School of Social Welfare on June 30, 2024, at the end of her current five-year term.

With the upcoming departure of Jenn Stringer, we have engaged Berkeley Executive Search and appointed a search committee to lead a nationwide search for Berkeley’s next associate vice chancellor and chief information officer. As we expect the search to take several months, we have asked Gabriel Gonzalez to serve as interim chief information officer starting July 1, 2023, until we fill this role.

University Librarian Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason will be retiring from campus in June 2024.

The academic salary scales for policy-covered academics will be increased by a general range adjustment of 4.6 percent. This adjustment to the academic salary scales will be effective October 1, 2023 for policy-covered faculty and July 1, 2023 for other policy-covered academic appointees.

Dean Ann Harrison will be on sabbatical this fall

Michelle D. Young has been appointed dean of the Berkeley School of Education, with a start date of June 15, 2023.

Per UC policy, all email communications regarding university business, including those of faculty, staff, and student employees, must be performed exclusively through the use of an @berkeley.edu email address.

The month of Ramadan begins this week and we want to express our support for the Muslim campus community, in particular the Muslim student community. We are sharing the following information about services and accommodations that support a sense of belonging as students observe and practice their faith.

We are writing to share good news about advances that UC Berkeley is making to recognize the “social” or “public” impact of our scholarship; and smooth the campus systems friction points that many of us may encounter when we conduct research in partnership with entities outside of Berkeley (e.g., community-based organizations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry).

Jenn Stringer, associate vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer, will be leaving UC Berkeley at the end of June to join the J. Paul Getty Trust as vice president and chief digital officer.

Today, UC Berkeley is announcing the Library’s long-term space plan. The plan positions the Library to serve the needs of students, faculty, and other researchers while balancing the realities of shrinking budgets for staff, services, and collections, which reflect the overall budgetary problems currently facing the campus.

This year Ramadan will take place from March 22 to April 21, and Eid al-Fitr scheduled for April 21. We would like to remind you of the campus policies that outline the rights and responsibilities of both instructors and students with respect to course conflicts and accommodations of all types.

David Ackerly has been reappointed as dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources for a second five-year term, beginning July 1, 2023.

Important campus policies and guidelines concerning academic accommodations for religious observance, illness, disability, hardship, and other matters.

The EVCP has assembled a task force charged with identifying and prioritizing possible and implementable changes with the goal of boosting morale and freeing up time for all members of our community.