News

Dear Campus Community,

I write to you to share the news that Dean Diana Wu will be retiring in June 2021 after serving as the dean of University Extension for 12 years. 

To celebrate 150 Years of Women at Berkeley, we are soliciting photos from all genders of the UC Berkeley community including students, staff, alumni and faculty to create a photo mosaic of the 150W logo.

It is our responsibility to make all instructional materials available to students with disabilities in a timely manner.

We are writing to welcome you to the start of the Fall 2020 Semester and to inform you of important information and resources for this coming academic year.

Faculty, instructors, and graduate student instructors are invited to a special Instructor and GSI Town Hall next Wednesday, August 19 at 4:00 p.m. A panel will discuss preparations that have taken place this past spring and throughout the summer for the upcoming fall semester, answer your questions, highlight some of the challenges facing many of our students and instructors, and discuss the many resources on the Keep Teaching website that the campus has created for instructors and GSIs.

Our goal is to preserve jobs and achieve our budget targets through expense reductions and voluntary personnel actions to the greatest extent possible. The following voluntary options can help your department reach its budget targets and assist the campus overall. For example, for some individuals, a reduction in time might be feasible and attractive.

The Chancellor’s Cabinet has issued updates for those that plan events and gatherings on campus in regard to the pandemic and recovery.

Fall semester will begin with fully remote instruction

Protocols for the sharing of information regarding positive COVID-19 cases that might occur in your campus units or in your building.

Latest update on the campus budget

We encourage you to visit the Graduate Student Diversity Task Force’s implementation webpage to review their preliminary recommendations and provide feedback.

The Report from the Fall 2020 Instructional Planning and Policy Task Force, which is now posted on the Academic Senate website.

After seven years at the helm of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Edward Wasserman has announced that he will be stepping down as dean and rejoining the faculty full-time as a professor in media ethics. We are delighted to announce that Professor Geeta Anand has agreed to serve as interim Dean of Berkeley Journalism beginning July 1, 2020.

Juneteenth (June 19, 2020) will be a day of remembrance for UC Berkeley.

The University of California has reached a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, the world’s second-largest academic publisher.

Campus has formulated the a pair of policies for instruction during Summer Sessions and the Fall Semester.

UC President Janet Napolitano will propose to the Board of Regents this week that there be a systemwide freeze on the salaries of non-represented staff and faculty for fiscal year 2021.