Find and nourish a faculty that is strong in conventional terms, i.e. research and graduate education, but which is willing to give a major part of its time for a limited period to undergraduate education. One means of enlisting such a faculty would be to create a new college. Call it Berkeley College.

The Specifics: Appointments from the university faculty for a minimum of four years in any six-year period: seventy-five percent time to undergraduate teaching; twenty-five percent to graduate teaching in each faculty member's field.

Incentives: Additional leave at the end of the period of service; additional pay during the period of service; recognition of the service in other intangible ways.

Process of selection of faculty: Tenured only, and nominated by departments, each nominee reviewed by an ad hoc commitee composed from a roster of distinguished teachers and scholars. This ad hoc committee should be nominated by the Budget Commitee and appointed by the Provost or Chancellor

The reasons for this process of selection should be clear. There is a research elite at the university. Its character is established by its scientific and scholarly work. It is rewarded for its work. The faculty in Berkeley College should also be an elite, chosen in the traditional way, and receiving pay and leave for its efforts. The, traditional, well-established means of selection --faculty by ad hoc and Budget Committee -- will reassure everyone, and bring the new college into the mainstream. Non-tenured regular faculty (assistant professors) should not take part. Their energies should remain in the usual channels so as not to cloud the review process for tenure.

Berkeley College would, of course, be "administrative fiction" with very little staff support.

 Last updated 4/29/99 by CS