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Chancellor's Memo |
Dear Colleagues:
I write to invite you to submit faculty FTE pre-proposals for the
Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI), which seeks to augment
the campus's capacity to conduct research and teaching on issues
concerning the nature of multicultural (i.e. multiracial and
multiethnic) societies and the strategies and practices that might
lead such societies to flourish. The process for proposal
solicitation and review and the tentative process for allocating up to
10 FTE faculty in support of the BDRI over a multiyear period are
described in detail at
http://evcp.chance.berkeley.edu/DiversityInitiativeRFP.pdf.
Proposals for individual FTE or FTE clusters will be considered. The
FTE allocated will be assigned to existing academic departments, but
would "float" above departmental unit target sizes. The ultimate goal
is for the new faculty to collaborate with existing faculty across a
wide range of disciplines on the campus and develop research themes
that would grow, flourish and eventually mature into research and
instructional programs. Proposals will be judged by the BDRI Steering
Committee based on recommendations from a "Blue Ribbon" panel of
external reviewers.
The FTE RFP process includes a pre-proposal review: relatively brief
(4-5 page) statements of areas in which the proposer(s) believe the
campus can benefit from new faculty FTE, the kinds of research
complementarities such FTE would foster, the roles the proposers
themselves expect to play in the research enterprise, and commitments
of support from likely home department(s) of the proposed FTE. After
an evaluation of these pre-proposals, the BDRI Steering Committee will
recommend which ones to invite to submit full proposals. The BDRI
Steering Committee may discover complementarities and likely synergies
among the pre-proposals and invite proposers to work together on
constructing a full proposal. The BDRI Steering Committee may wish to
invite a subset of those who submitted pre-proposals to give oral
presentations at which the Committee can probe further the likely
payoff from the proposed research and FTE.
We hope to begin the search process for the first new faculty in Fall
2006. We also anticipate the initiation of symposia and a speakers
series in Spring 2006 as a means of heightening the visibility of
relevant research already being conducted on campus and as a means of
drawing campus-wide attention to the issues involved in the
Initiative.
We have scheduled a "town hall" meeting from 4-5:00 pm on Tuesday,
Dec. 6, 2005 in 775AB Tan Hall to entertain questions and stimulate a
discussion on possible proposals. The discussion will be led by BDRI
Co-Chairs Alice M. Agogino, Chair of the Academic Senate, and George
Breslauer, Dean of Social Sciences. (Directions: Take the Tan Hall
elevator to the 7th floor, turn left from the elevator and walk to
775AB.)
I hope that you will give serious consideration to ways in which
on-campus talent can be induced to collaborate on research and develop
FTE requests that will lead to a better understanding of multiracial
and multiethnic societies and strategies and practices that will lead
them to flourish.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Birgeneau
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APM 210
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The July 1, 2005 modification of the
Academic Planning Manual Section 210 outlines the importance of diversity and its consideration in tenure and promotion in the research, teaching and service.
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