NOTICE OF MEETING∗
BERKELEY DIVISION OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
Thursday, November 21, 2013, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Items on the agenda for the fall meeting of the Berkeley Division include:
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Update on health care benefits
•
“Right-sizing” the UC Berkeley faculty
A discussion of the size of the Berkeley faculty; student-to-faculty ratios;
comparisons to peer institutions; campus processes for review and allocation of
FTEs; the impact of budget challenges on hiring; and issues raised by new
methods of teaching and learning.
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Announcements
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks
Division Chair Elizabeth Deakin
Graduate Assembly Campus Affairs Vice President John Ready
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Reports of special committees
•
Report of standing committees
Committee on Rules and Elections (Written report)
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Proposed legislation
Proposed amendment to Berkeley Division Bylaw 22.A (Membership of the
Committee on Memorial Resolutions)
Proposed amendments to Berkeley Division Regulation 2001.A (Foreign
language requirement)
* Communications may be directed to the Academic Senate e-mail address: acad_sen@berkeley.edu.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam is a compilation of commemorative statements honoring deceased
members of the Division, their lives, and service to the University. Memorials are
contributed by various sources, including colleagues of the deceased and the Office of
Public Affairs; In Memoriam, the systemwide Academic Senate's online publication,
makes these tributes generally available.
The Committee on Memorial Resolutions has approved memorials for the following
Berkeley faculty since April 2013. The authors of the memorials are listed in the column
to the right.
William George Bade (Mathematics)
Marc Riefel, Donald Saranson
Howard A. Bern (Integrative Biology)
Tyrone Hayes, Marvalee Wake
Paul Ludwig Chambre (Nuclear
Engineering and Mathematics)
Joonhong Ahn, T. Kenneth Fowler,
William E. Kastenberg, Calvin C. Moore
Garniss Curtis (Earth & Planetary Science)
Committee on Memorial Resolutions
Stuart Jay Freedman (Physics)
Yury Kolomensky, Paul Preuss, Lindley
Winslow
Donald Arthur Glaser (Molecular and Cell
Biology)
Lynn Glaser, Maria Hjelm, Tomaso
Poggio, Bob Sanders, Margaret Thow,
George Trilling, Herbert Steiner
Patrick L. Armin Sweeney (South and
Southeast Asian Studies)
Ben Brinner, Bridget Connelly
Kenneth N. Waltz (Political Science)
Robert L. Powell
Clarence J. Weinman (Parasitology)
John R. Anderson, Robert S. Lane
Order of Business
Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
November 21, 2013, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
ORDER OF BUSINESS
I.
Minutes
Minutes of the May 2, 2012 meeting of the Division (Enclosure 1)
Minutes of the November 7, 2012 meeting of the Division (Enclosure 2)
Minutes of the April 23, 2013 meeting of the Division (Enclosure 3)
II.
Announcements by the President
President Janet Napolitano is unable to attend.
III.
IV.
Other Announcements
A.
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks
B.
Berkeley Division Chair Elizabeth Deakin
C.
John Ready, Graduate Assembly Campus Affairs Vice President
Special Orders-Consent Calendar
For proposed legislative amendments, additions to the current text are noted by an
underline; deletions to the current text are noted by a strikethrough line
A.
Proposed amendment to Berkeley Division Bylaw 22.A (Membership of
the Committee on Memorial Resolutions)
The Committee on Memorial Resolutions has proposed an amendment to
the bylaw governing its membership to reflect the workload associated
with, and disciplinary breadth needed for, the effective management of
the committee. Both the Committee on Rules and Elections and Divisional
Council approved the amendment.
22. MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS (Am. 12.87, 9.91)
A. Membership!
This Committee has at least three five members.
B. Duties
• This Committee is responsible, on behalf of the Division, for
preparation and publication of commemorative statements
concerning the lives and services to the University of deceased
members of the Division, and other members of the University
community whom the Committee, at its discretion, may choose
to memorialize.
• It may appoint such subcommittees as may in each case be
appropriate.
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B.
Proposed amendments to Berkeley Division Regulation 2001.A (Options
for Ph.D. Foreign Language Requirement)
The amendments to Berkeley Division Regulation 2001.A are proposed in
order to bring the regulations into alignment with Graduate Council (GC)
policy. Berkeley Division Regulations currently define two options for
satisfying this requirement. Option 1 requires a student to “demonstrate a
reading knowledge of two languages by passing an examination in each.”
Option 2 requires that a student demonstrate “an exceptionally thorough
reading knowledge and an adequate knowledge of the grammatical
structure of a single language.” Since 2007, the GC has approved requests
from four Ph.D. degree programs to require reading proficiency in one
foreign language as described in Option 1. Each request presented a
persuasive argument that the contemporary practice of research and
scholarship in that field required an elementary reading knowledge of one
foreign language. The GC approved all four requests. On the advice of the
associate dean of Graduate Division, the GC approved the creation of a
third option, which is like Option 1 but only requires one language. Both
the Committee on Rules and Elections, and Divisional Council approved
the proposed amendments.
2001. FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
A.
Options
Unless a blanket exemption has been approved by the
Graduate Council at the request of the doctoral program, a
prospective candidate for the Ph.D. degree must satisfy the
foreign language requirement by one of the following
options before the student is admitted to the qualifying
examination. The choice is to be determined, in the case of
each student, by the department or program primarily
concerned with the student’s proposed field of study.
1.
The student must demonstrate a reading knowledge
of two languages by passing an examination in each,
set by the department or program concerned.
•
The department or program determines
whether a dictionary may be used; the length
of the passage, and the time allotted are subject
to regulation by the Graduate Council.
•
For one of the examinations, the student may,
subject to approval of the department or
program concerned, substitute a four-semester
(or equivalent) sequence of courses in that
language of university level, passed with an
average grade of C or better.
•
The Graduate Council establishes general
policies respecting such sequences, including
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3.
time limits beyond which they no longer carry
credit, and authorizes the Dean, upon
recommendation of the department or
program concerned, to accept language courses
taken at another institution.
(Am. 3.83)
The student may elect to satisfy the requirement by
demonstrating an exceptionally thorough reading
knowledge and an adequate knowledge of the
grammatical structure of a single language. Such
command is tested as the Graduate Council directs.
The student must demonstrate a reading knowledge
of one language by passing an examination set by the
department or program concerned.
•
The conditions governing this examination or
substitution of coursework for it and Graduate
Council oversight are the same as those
outlined in paragraph A.1.
V.
Reports of Special Committees (None)
VI.
Reports of Standing Committees
A.
VII.
Committee on Rules and Elections (Written report only – Enclosure 4)
Petitions of Students (None)
VIII. Unfinished Business (None)
IX.
University and Faculty Welfare (Discussion only)
A.
Update on health care benefits
B.
“Right-sizing” the UC Berkeley faculty
A panel presentation, followed by an open discussion, will provide Senate
members an opportunity to consider the size of the Berkeley faculty;
student-to-faculty ratios; comparisons to peer institutions; campus
processes for review and allocation of FTEs; the impact of budget
challenges on hiring; and issues raised by new methods of teaching and
learning.
X.
New Business (None)
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