The campus announced Wednesday that it had chosen Amy Jarich as the new assistant vice chancellor and director of undergraduate admissions after a yearlong search.
Jarich, a former senior associate dean in the admissions office at the University of Virginia, will manage a 45 person full-time staff and 75 part-time employees who read undergraduate admissions’ applications, according to a press release announcing Jarich’s selection.
In addition to supervising the undergraduate admissions process and overseeing worldwide and local outreach activities, Jarich will also work with staff and faculty at the UC Office of the President on the campus admission process.
“The first thing I want to start doing is talking to people,” Jarich said. “I can’t wait to meet with all of the students, faculty and staff to teach me about campus.”
Jarich said she was initially attracted to UC Berkeley because of its strong commitment to public service and public education.
“There is dedication at Berkeley from the administration down … the most important thing is the students and the quality of education,” Jarich said. “There is a lot of pressure, but it’s also very exciting to be a part of admissions at a flagship school.”
Jarich’s appointment, which begins Aug. 20, concludes a nearly 10-month-long search following former Dean Walter Robinson’s departure in September 2011. The selection process involved more than 100 candidates, who were then interviewed by faculty, staff and students.
The search originally began in fall 2011, and was expected to be completed by the end of the fall semester. However, the final two candidates were deemed not strong enough, and so the search was restarted, according to former CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth, a student member of the search committee for the director.
The new search process involved three open forums for students to meet and interact with the three finalists for the position in an effort to make the selection process more inclusive. The search committee, led by Montouth, also used skype interviews to get to know the candidates even better.
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let’s see what happens. her photo doesnt make her look impressive. projection: destruction of undergraduate education and student body accelerates
I am curious why the photo doesn’t leave you impressed?
It’s interesting how the campus thought “the final two candidates were deemed not strong enough,” yet they demonstrated impressive backgrounds, higher levels of education, and more extensive experience than Jarich. The high caliber of one of those candidates was confirmed when he was recently hired as the director of undergraduate admissions for the UC system.
“when he was recently hired as the director of undergraduate admissions for the UC system”
Right, because that extra layer of bureaucracy is necessary…
Lololol, day one on the job and already putting on an exercise in self-contradiction which is very revealing:
“There is dedication at Berkeley from the administration down … the most
important thing is the students and the quality of education,”
“From the administration down” b/c in reality the administration sees itself as far more important than the educational mission of the institution.
And UVa, SRSLY? That place was recently reduced to national laughing-stock b/c rich businessmen think they know how to run a University (meaning ‘like a business’), the very same cancerous attitude which infects the UC’s Board of Regents.
“The constant denigration of government and public service, coupled with the often unjustified veneration of business, has led to a world where successful capitalists are privileged in all discussions. In an earlier time, we understood that the values and priorities of the market weren’t universally applicable; of course you wouldn’t run a university like a business. It has different goals, serves different constituencies, and more important, has a broad obligation to serve the public.”
http://prospect.org/article/corporatization-uva
“If The University Were A Business, It Would Likely Be The Largest Corporation In California”
-Regents Minutes (2010)
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/minutes/2010/audit7.pdf