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Berkeley Wants
A United UC
BERKELEY, Calif. (CPS) —A
committee of the Faculty Senate
of the University of California’s
Berkeley campus has called for
more campus autonomy within
the state’s university system.
The committee proposal sug
gests a university of nine autono
mous schools under a single
Board of Regents. It would mean
reducing the role of the univer
sity president and greatly in
creasing the role of the faculties
and the chancellors on the indi
vidual campuses.
The University of California is
now a system with nine indi
vidual campuses, each with its
own chancellor and each under
the control of the president and
the Board of Regents.
The report was released by the
committee chairman, Thomas
Kent, at a press conference that
was also attended by Martin
Malia, chairman of the Academic
Senate at Berkeley.
Campus Commonwealth
Kent said his committee advo
cates a university in the form of
individually chartered campuses
where the individual "chancellor
and the faculty senate work as
partners in the common enter
prise” of education.
(Interviewed in Washington
during last week’s meeting of
the American Council on Educa
tion, President Clark Kerr sharp
ly opposed any commonwealth
arrangement. "In a common
wealth any member can withdraw
at any time, and no one really
wants that." Instead, Kerr pre
ferred decentralization of the
university along federal lines.)
Plans Coming
Kent said that the senate would
continue to propose and make
policies on each campus "in those
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[ chancellor would provide ‘‘effec
tive leadership.”
The proposals of the committee
will be submitted to the full
Academic Senate and, if approv
ed, the committee will likely be
asked to submit a detailed plan
' of implementation. If the senate
j rejects the proposal, a new com
mittee will probably be formed
with the job of writing a new set
of recommendations.
Any final action would have to
j come from the university’s re
i gents.
The Kent committee reported
that "an institution as compli
cated as the University of Cali
fornia cannot be operated per
manently by the methods appro
! priatc to building it.
"While in the past a certain
measure of centralized direction
may have been desirable, now
such direction becomes a con
straint on more subtle types of
achievement,” Kent said.
The day following the issuance
of the report, Regent Donald Mc
Laughlin said the report was
"very interesting,” and that the
regents would doubtless study it
He added that the regents were
| "much interested indeed, in pro
moting more autonomy, but this
is a complex problem.”
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Advising More Personal
In the past, the most any stu
dent saw of his academic adviser
was a passing signature and a
hurried approval or disapproval
of a class schedule.
However, the University rec
ognized a gap had developed be
tween the students and faculty,
forcing both to become dis
oriented and a little confused. In
an effort to close the student
faculty academic gap, the Univer
sity formed the Academic Advis
ing center.
Last July the center officially
began operation for summer stu
dents on a one-man basis. In
September four other graduate
students were added to the cen
ter staff to accommodate the 1,200
students who have since used the
advising center.
The Academic Advising cen
ter was formed to “try to main
tain a close personal relation
ship between faculty and stu
dents despite the University’s
size,” said the center’s director
I'hil Schoggen. Schoggen took
over as head of the center in
September and has been “tre
mendously pleased so far. The
response over the campus has
been extremely rewarding.”
Schoggen pointed out that the
purpose of the center is not so
much to switch the responsibility
for academic requirements from
the student to the adviser, but
more to present the student with
complete information and impli
cations of the academic require
ments.
i He emphasized that two staff
members work at the advising
center office eight hours a day
to solve such problems as group
University requirements, depart
ment requirements, major re
quirements, transfer students, and -
implications of majors.
The center also is responsible
for reviewing student petitions
: for waiver of academic require
ments. Schoggen is head of the
academic requirements commit
tee.
Schoggen enthusiastically add
ed, “This is a significant effort
to show this is a school where
the undergraduate is important.”
To Schoggen the plight of the
undergraduate requires thorough
advising and adviser selection.
Adviser selection is a main ob
jective of the center.
However, Schoggen stressed the
chief objective of the center is
to offer undergraduates adequate
counseling and presenting them
with enough information concern
ing academic requirements.
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