Understanding faculty governance strategy
Here are some high level ideas about governance strategy and challenges at UC Berkeley
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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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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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Proposed Principles for Policy Evaluation
All senate committees should consider this framework for policy analysis.
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Questions for the Vice Chancellor for Administration
In my opinion, some of Berkeley’s biggest problems emerge from the VCA’s portfolio.
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On Administrative Misalignment
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.
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Comments on “Sustainability”
Comments on the Proposed Presidential Policy on Sustainable Practices Thank you for inviting comment on the Proposed Presidential Policy on Sustainable Practices (“Policy”). While well-intended, the Policy creates numerous requirements untethered from our terminal goals of excellence in research and teaching. The Policy will require effort from many staff and consultants while not improving teaching…