News

Laura D’Andrea Tyson has agreed to serve as the Interim Dean of the Haas School of Business effective July 1, 2018

Information about positive developments regarding the state budget and philanthropy – two areas where faculty, students, staff and alumni have joined forces to build support for Berkeley.

Professor Tsu-Jae King Liu, has been named the next dean of the College of Engineering (CoE)

Professor Lisa Alvarez-Cohen will be Berkeley’s next Vice Provost for Academic Planning (VP-AP).

Professor David Ackerly will be the next dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources (CNR).

William H. Dow, will serve as Interim Dean of the School of the Public Health (SPH)

Announcing Faculty Leadership Academy - Spring 2019 Participants

The Controller’s Office is introducing a new travel reimbursement process that is intended to eliminate duplicate data entry by Campus Shared Services, shorten processing time to payment from weeks to days, and put more control of the process in the hands of employee-travelers.

Tsu-Jae King Liu, Vice Provost for Academic & Space Planning, has decided to step down this summer after completing her two-year commitment to serve in this position.

Update on the progress toward developing Berkeley’s new strategic plan

Over the past year the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the ASUC student leaders, and VC Finance’s Office of Planning and Analysis (OPA) have been collaborating on ways to better equip students with information that allows them to provide contextual data about their Berkeley grade point averages (GPA) to prospective employers and graduate schools.

Updates on Berkeley’s active engagement with the burgeoning and exciting field of data science, which has the potential to shape numerous fields of study and practice.

Update on all that we are doing to meet our budget target for fiscal year 2018-19.

Jim Knowlton has agreed to become the next Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of California, Berkeley.

In spring 2019 Berkeley will inaugurate a Faculty Leadership Academy. This program is designed for tenured Berkeley faculty who are interested in developing skills and knowledge for leadership on the Berkeley campus.

Now that external consultants have finished their detailed review of our intercollegiate athletics program and submitted a number of valuable findings and recommendations, I am writing to provide an update to the Berkeley campus and alumni communities on my plans and intentions.

Update on efforts to expand access to safe, affordable and convenient housing to Berkeley’s students and young faculty members.

Updated campus policy on self-supporting graduate professional degree programs (SSGPDPs)

UC Berkeley has entered into a Resolution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR). For the last four years, OCR has been reviewing the campus’s handling of sexual violence and sexual harassment cases. This agreement brings the investigation to a close.

Update on efforts underway to address the campus’s budget deficit and to provide the University with a strong, stable and sustainable financial foundation.