Initiatives
The executive vice chancellor and provost routinely commissions small task forces and working groups to study and develop solutions to various campus issues or pursue strategic priorities. Current and past initiatives of this sort are listed below. Click each section to learn more about it.
Academic Advancement, Recruitment, and Career Success
Academic Advancement, Recruitment, and Career Success (ARCS) is a campus-wide initiative to create sustainable change by identifying and addressing barriers and opportunities to support faculty...
Financial Sustainability
Overview The Financial Sustainability Initiative seeks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our financial operations and to devise new ways to allocate the resources we do have to ensure...
Reducing Bureaucracy
Reducing the bureaucratic burden at Berkeley Efforts to reduce the bureaucratic burden are happening all over campus! Many units and teams are finding areas that can be improved and are tackling those...
Stipends & Compensation for Dept Chairs and Academic Unit Leaders
A Task Force to advise the administration on revising our practices and policies as they pertain to the compensation of faculty who serve as department chairs and in similar roles (e.g., division...
Transfer Student Experience
In each year of the Joint Senate-Administration Task Force on the Transfer Student Experience, a three-year task force, working groups will be created to make improvements on specific areas of the...