Chris Hoofnagle | UC Berkeley School of Law

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  • Bearometer 7: External Criticisms

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    On April 16, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (TKTK members) via Qualtrics email contacts. TKTK completed the survey. Results are available in the link circulated to senate faculty. In the current environment where our university’s mode of operation is being openly challenged by powerful outside forces, do you believe that some…

  • Bearometer 7: External Challenges

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    On April 15th, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2564 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. TKTK completed the survey. Results are available in the link circulated to senate faculty. In the current environment where our university’s mode of operation is being openly challenged by powerful outside forces, do you believe that there…

  • Bearometer 6: Chancellor Vision

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    On April 8, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2579 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. 155 completed the survey. Results are available in the link circulated to senate faculty. A new chancellor means a new vision for Berkeley. What are the most important issues the strategic planning process should address?

  • Bearometer 5: Free Speech Temperature

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    On April 1, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2588 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. 335 completed the survey. Results are available in the link circulated to senate faculty. Are you concerned about retaliation when you speak, or is your speech chilled by any of the classes of people listed below?

  • Bearometer 4: Intercollegiate Athletics

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    On March 4, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2635 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. 341 completed the survey. Results are available in the link sent to senate faculty members. What level of priority should Berkeley place on intercollegiate athletics?

  • Bearometer 3: SAT/ACT Testing

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    On February 20, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2635 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. 430 completed the survey. Results are available at the link sent to senate faculty members. Should UC Berkeley go back to using standardized test scores (e.g. SAT or ACT) in undergraduate applications?

  • Bearometer 2: Union

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    On February 11, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2635 members) via Qualtrics email contacts: “As the University prepares to renegotiate the graduate student union agreement, what is the most important insight you want negotiators to understand about how the current agreement impacts your teaching or research?” 179 responded. Results available by…

  • What is the Faculty Bearometer

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    The Faculty Bearometer is a one-question survey posed to the Senate Faculty on issues of teaching and governance. Read more about it here.

  • Bearometer 1: Welfare

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    On January 27th, 2025, we distributed the following question to senate faculty (2635 members) via Qualtrics email contacts. 300 submitted responses. What is the single most important challenge to your overall welfare as a faculty member at Cal? Results are at the link circulated to senate faculty members.

  • What is the Faculty Budget Forum (FBF)?

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    The Faculty Budget Forum is Berkeley largest email list for faculty-to-faculty interaction on governance matters.

  • Fundamental Challenge: Strategy

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    Understanding our terminal goals is the core challenge of governance. Our terminal goals are to have world-class research and excellent teaching. Our governance activities should focus on promoting these strategic goals, and limiting the effects of other goals on these strategic goals. It’s easier for me to get reimbursed by stodgy European universities, where I…

  • Military ML: Missing the Target

    Military ML: Missing the Target

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    Are we on the precipice of developing autonomous killer robots; unmanned technologies that will completely dominate conflict, remorselessly, perfectly? Some advocates think so but this article explains why the killer robot view is misplaced and in its misdirection, draws attention away from how militaries are likely to use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)…