Author: chris
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Bearometer 4: Intercollegiate Athletics
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 here. What level of priority should Berkeley place on intercollegiate athletics?
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Bearometer 3: SAT/ACT Testing
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 here. Should UC Berkeley go back to using standardized test scores (e.g. SAT or ACT) in undergraduate applications?
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Bearometer 2: Union
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?” Results available by email link.
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What is the Faculty Bearometer
The Faculty Bearometer is a one-question survey posed to the Senate Faculty on issues of teaching and governance. Read more about it here.
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Bearometer 1: Welfare
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 here (requires CalNet Authentication)
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What is the Faculty Budget Forum (FBF)?
The Faculty Budget Forum is Berkeley largest email list for faculty-to-faculty interaction on governance matters.
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Fundamental Challenge: Strategy
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…
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Military ML: Missing the Target
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)…
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Proposed Principles for Policy Evaluation
All senate committees should consider this framework for policy analysis.
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Cybersecurity in Context
Cybersecurity in Context is forthcoming from Wiley September 2024! Pre-order here. Every one now has a stake in the healthy functioning of communications and control networks, in the devices and services dependent on network, and by implication, in all the complicated infrastructure required to keep networks, devices, and services operating. As we have become more…
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The Techcons
Revisiting Arthur Leff’s Swindling and Selling Yale Law Professor Arthur Leff wrote a powerful, market-structure analysis of consumer fraud in his 1976 Swindling and Selling. That work is more or less lost to history. Leff explained that con artists attempted to impose a false economy on marks. In a perfect congame, such as the Spanish Prisoner,…
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Cybersecurity in Context
New course: Fall 2024! In fall 2024, I will teach Cybersecurity in Context in the Legal Studies program (LS 190). The course will be based on my new textbook with Golden G. Richard III. Course Description Cybersecurity has become instrumental to economic activity and human rights alike. But as digital technologies penetrate almost every aspect…