Category: governance

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

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…

All senate committees should consider this framework for policy analysis.

In my opinion, some of Berkeley’s biggest problems emerge from the VCA’s portfolio.

This is my diagnosis of Berkeley’s ills: a problem I call administrative misalignment. Some administrators are not working for Berkeley; they are working for something else. Maybe themselves.