Moderator: Ben Hermalin, Vice Chair of Berkeley Division
Format (should all be going according to plan):
•   25 minutes of remarks from panel
•   35 minutes for questions & comments from the floor
•   To ensure as many voices as possible are heard, those asking questions/making comments from floor are kindly asked to limit themselves to two minutes each.

UCB Division Meeting| Strategic Academic Planning
•   Ben Hermalin b,c,d,s (Economics & Bus. Admin.)
•   Fiona Doyle c,d,s (Materials Science and Engineering)
•   Barbara Spackman b,c (Italian Studies & Comp. Lit.)—
•   Birgitta Whaley b (Chemistry)
•   Steve Hinshaw c (Psychology)
–   experiences (current & former): b = Budget
Committee; c = dept. chair; d = decanal; s = Senate leadership
2

UCB Division Meeting| Strategic Academic Planning
•   Over a decade since last academic planning
•   Fields, student interests, etc. have evolved
•   Funding models have changed
•   New opportunities/threats have emerged (
, online education)
3

UCB Division Meeting| Strategic Academic Planning
4

UCB Division Meeting| Strategic Academic Planning
•   What is our mission in the 21 st century?
•   Excellence is multidimensional and opinions vary as to the weights we assign the dimensions.
•   How do we judge the tradeo ff between depth and breadth of excellence?
•   … the tradeo ff between meeting student demand for popular majors/programs and providing a broad education?
•   … resource issues when achieving/maintaining excellence has di ff erential costs across fields/majors/programs?
5

UCB Division Meeting| Strategic Academic Planning
•   We are highly constrained
•   State funding is not coming back — can’t be cargo cultists
•   Fund raising is, ideally, a (partial) solution — but primarily in the long run
•   Intermediate run requires generating revenue via smart use of resources ( programs ( e.g., e.g.
land) and via revenue-generating
, professional masters degrees)
•   These in turn generate many issues for academic planning:
–   tradeo ff s between equity and incentives
–   allocation of resources between fields/majors/programs that can readily generate revenue and those that cannot
–   faculty workload
–   maintaining quality
6