Neil Henry has resigned as dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, the campus announced Friday.
In an email to faculty, staff, students and selected alumni of the journalism school, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer said Henry will return to teaching. According to the email, former dean Tom Goldstein will serve as interim dean for the upcoming academic year with the expectation of appointing a full-term dean effective July 1, 2012.
Henry was chosen as dean of the journalism school in 2009 after holding the position on a transitional basis since 2007.
“Please join me in thanking Neil for his many years of service as dean,” Breslauer said in the email. “During these years, Neil has made important and lasting contributions to the school, the region and the profession of journalism.”
Included in Henry’s accomplishments enumerated by Breslauer is the implementation of a major curriculum reorganization for multimedia and basic reporting instruction. Henry also played a role in the launch of The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization founded in 2010 that covers the Bay Area and partners with The New York Times, among other media outlets.
J.D. Morris is an assistant news editor.
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Chancellor Birgeneau makes Cal most overrated most expensive USA public university. University of California (UC) picks the pockets of Californians,
foreign, out-of-state students clean. UC shouldn’t come to the Governor or
public for support. (The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught
at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work)
University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary)
has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not
overseer of his own fiefdom. These are not isolated examples: recruits (uses
California tax $) out of state $50,600 tuition students that displace qualified
Californians from Cal. public university education; spends $7,000,000 + for
consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; in procuring a $3,000,000 consulting firm he failed to receive
proposals from other firms; Latino enrollment drops while out of state
jumps 2010 (M Krupnick Contra Costa Times); ranked # 70 USA best universities
Forbes; tuition to Return on Investment drops below top 10; QS academic ranking
falls below top 10; only 50 attend Birgeneau all employees meeting; visits down
20%; absence Cal. senior management control NCAA places basketball program on
probation.
It’s all shameful. There is no justification for violations by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none.
Birgeneau’s irregularities continue. Governor Brown, UC
Board of Regents Chair Lansing must do a better job of vigorously enforcing stringent
oversight over Chancellor Birgeneau who uses the campus as his fiefdom.
Chancellor Birgeneau needs a new job.
Why don’t you address the Regents rather than the Daily Cal?
I have now it is your turn Guest. The more transparency to more people the better
Facts trump opinion.