News

Vice Provost of Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division Fiona Doyle has decided to retire next summer after a remarkable 36 years as a Berkeley faculty member and administrator.

Ann E. Harrison will be the next dean of the Haas School of Business.

Introducing two new campus policies – the Policy on Philanthropic Gift Fund Minima and the Policy on Payout Distribution from Endowed Chairs and Professorships.

After seven years at the helm of Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, Jeff Edleson has made a decision to step down as dean.

As we start the fall semester, we call your attention to the following important campus policies and guidelines concerning the academic calendar­­­, academic integrity, and accommodations for students in their academic programs.

Stephen Sutton will be Berkeley’s next Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (VCSA)

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.