The dean will replace interim dean Sam Davis, who left retirement to serve a one-year term beginning August 2011. Davis’ current salary is $218,700, and the new dean’s salary will be based on factors including qualifications and current salary, according to campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.
Before becoming interim dean, Davis taught at UC Berkeley beginning in 1971 as a professor of architecture, chair of the Department of Architecture and interim dean and associate dean of the College of Environmental Design until his retirement in 2009. He replaced Lorraine Midanik, who was appointed dean of the School of Social Welfare in 2007.
The dean’s responsibilities will include providing leadership in teaching, research and public service as well as fundraising and strengthening networking relationships, according to the email. Additionally, applications will be “warmly welcomed” from candidates prepared to contribute to diversity and inclusion, the email states.
“A successful candidate for a deanship must have intellectual stature, a reputation for even-handedness, superb interpersonal skills, an entrepreneurial instinct for imagining and creating new programs, fund-raising ability, and superb administrative skills,” Breslauer said in an email. “Sometimes these are well worth searching for nationally.”
Alisha Azevedo is the lead academics and administration reporter.
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I love the University
of California (UC) having been a student and lecturer. But today I am concerned
that at times I do not recognize the UC I love. Like so many I am deeply
disappointed by the pervasive failures of Regent Chairwoman Lansing, President
Yudof and the ten campus Chancellors from holding the line on rising costs and
tuition increases.
Californians are
reeling from19% unemployment (includes those forced to work part time, and
those no longer searching), mortgage defaults, loss of unemployment benefits.
And those who still have jobs are working longer for less. Faculty wages must reflect California’s ability to pay, not what others
are paid.
Pay increases for
generously paid Faculty is arrogance. Instate tuition consumes 14% of Ca.
Median Family Income!
UC Berkeley (ranked #
70 Forbes) tuition increases exceed the national average rate of increases. Chancellor
Birgeneau has molded Cal.
into the most expensive public university.
President Yudof and Chancellor
Birgeneau have dismissed many much needed cost-cutting options. They did not
consider freezing vacant faculty positions, increasing class size, requiring
faculty to teach more classes, doubling the time between sabbaticals, cutting
and freezing pay and benefits for all chancellors and reforming the pension
system.
They said such faculty
reforms “would not be healthy for University
of California”. Exodus of
faculty and administrators? Who can afford them and where would they go?
We agree it is far
from the ideal situation, but it is in the best interests of the university
system and the state to hold the line on cost increases. UC cannot expect to do
business as usual: raising tuition; granting pay raises and huge bonuses during
a weak economy that has sapped state revenues and individual Californians’
income.
There is no
question the necessary realignments with economic reality are painful. Regent Chairwoman Lansing can bridge the public trust
gap with reassurances that salaries and costs reflect California’s economic reality. The sky above UC will not fall
Opinions? Email the UC Board
of Regents [email protected]