If all pending and approved projects of a controversial UC Berkeley cost-cutting initiative meet their projected savings, the campus could save millions more than originally estimated. The Operational Excellence initiative — which began in 2009 as an effort to combat budget cuts by decreasing administrative costs — has saved the Read More…
Incoming UC Berkeley freshmen, staff and faculty without a current @berkeley.edu email account will now be able to switch their Calmail accounts to the new Google-powered campus mail, calendar and drive system, though returning students will not be able to access the system until October at the earliest. The new Read More…
Beginning Jan. 9, UC Berkeley students will be able to download Microsoft Office and operating system software for free, student and campus officials announced in a campuswide email Tuesday. The free software to students comes as the result of a license agreement arranged through the campus cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative’s Read More…
UC Berkeley administrators approved a proposal to create a one-stop center for student transaction services Thursday as part of the campus’s cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative and tabled a proposal to create a center for student organizations. The transactions center would save the campus $208,000 annually, according to the proposal, and aims to Read More…
Three project proposals — one of which involves hiring an outside consulting firm — were approved by Operational Excellence leadership Monday. The proposals, which include creating a council to oversee campus advising, hiring a team to plan for new technology and forming a center to help staff navigate online systems, Read More…
UC Berkeley is at risk of becoming financially unsustainable according to a study conducted by Bain & Company. Read More…
One of seven teams within the campus cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative may soon be another step closer to seeing its proposals enacted. After proposals from the student service initiative team received guidance from the initiative’s program committee, the coordinating committee — composed of one staff member and one faculty member Read More…
Last Monday morning, remnants of chalking efforts on the pavement in front of California Hall were the only tangible indicators in the area of the 12-day hunger strike that had concluded the evening before. By the time of the strike’s termination on May 8, the remaining hunger strikers had not Read More…
Should two new campus proposals be approved, students and student groups could more easily access services from transaction advisers. The student services team of Operational Excellence — a campus cost-cutting initiative aiming to save $75 million annually — presented two proposals to create one-stop centers for student business services and Read More…
Operational Excellence’s online procurement initiative was approved for $1.1 million in additional funding Oct. 7 to pay for extra faculty and staff training despite concern from faculty members about investing time and money in additional training. The new online purchasing platform, BearBuy, will serve as a portal for purchasing all Read More…
