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The Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley, passed a
resolution at its meeting May 12 asking the campus administration to
reinstate admissions to the School of Library and Information Studies and
criticizing the lack of due process and lack of consultation in suspending
admissions to several campus units. The resolution is not binding on the
administration, and it does not appear likely that the admissions suspensions
will be reversed.  What the resolution does is to express the views of the
Academic Senate which represents the campus faculty.
 
 "We appreciate the support of the Academic Senate," says Acting Dean Nancy
Van House. "We understand that the campus faces a serious budgetary
situation. The Academic Senate is asking the campus administration to
consider the process by which such decisions are made and the cumulative
impact on the campus of these individual decisions. The administration keeps
warning the state of the difficulty of rebuilding programs that are
dismantled as a result of the budget crisis. The Academic Senate is warning
the administration of the same thing."
 
 The other graduate programs whose admissions have been suspended are
Dramatic Arts and Art Practice.
 
 Text of the resolution follows.
 
 For further information contact:
      Nancy Van House, Acting Dean
      School of Library and Information Studies
      510-642-9980
      Internet: [log in to unmask]
 
 
 
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 WHEREAS there has been a lack of due process and a lack of consultation in
the manner in which the reviews of some units, resulting in suspension of
admissions, have been conducted; and WHEREAS suspension of admissions can be
tantamount to disestablishment, for which a formal process requiring Academic
Senate and Regental review exists,
 
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that suspensions of admissions in any units be
subject to Academic Senate committee review;
 
BE IT ALSO RESOLVED that the Academic Senate asks the Administration to
reestablish admissions in the School of Library and Information Studies for
January 1994; Art Practice for Fall 1994; and the Department of Dramatic Art
for Fall 1994; and that future suspensions of admission in these or other
units not be made until the Area Review Panel reports have been reviewed by
the Academic Senate;
 
BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that the Academic Senate asks the Administration to
report on the process by which decisions were made concerning these
departments and the relationship of these decisions to Area Review Panels;
and
 
BE IT ALSO RESOLVED that the Academic Senate asks the Academic Planning Board
to delay action on Art Practice until the Area Review Panel process is
completed.
 
 
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