| CLARK KERR AWARD | |||
| In 1968, the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate created the Clark Kerr Award as a tribute to the leadership and legacy of President Emeritus Kerr. The Clark Kerr award recognizes an individual who has made an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education. Past recipients have come from inside and outside the Berkeley community, including former California Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, and past Chancellors Ira Michael Heyman and Chang-Lin Tien. |
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President Emeritus |
The Senate selected President Emeritus Harold T. Shapiro to receive the 2008 Clark Kerr Award. Because of his superb leadership as President of two distinguished universities—one private and one public—his writings on the evolving role of modern universities and leadership of those institutions, and his engagement with many of the most important issues of our era, Professor Shapiro has become a recognized figure and major influence in American higher education. His accomplishments place him in the category of exemplary individuals who, over the years, have made an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education as envisioned by the Clark Kerr Award. |
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| BERKELEY FACULTY SERVICE AWARD | |||
To honor a member of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate who has given outstanding and dedicated service to the Berkeley campus, the Senate established the Berkeley Faculty Service Award in 2004.
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Professor Robert Anderson 2009 |
On May 6, Berkeley colleagues along with friends from other campuses and the Office of the President, gathered to honor Economics Professor Robert Anderson and to present him with the 2009 Berkeley Faculty Service Award. For almost 15 years, Professor Anderson has dedicated himself to faculty welfare, becoming the acknowledged authority on the UC Retirement System and all aspects of retirement. His tireless efforts on a broad range of issues have benefited not only Berkeley faculty and staff but also the entire University community. Quotes from several letters supporting Professor Anderson’s nomination illustrate the high regard and deep admiration of colleagues throughout the University. " …as Chair of the UC Faculty Welfare Task Force on Investments and Retirement (TFIR) he has been, without question, one of the most invaluable members of the Academic Senate and its governance structure that I have ever encountered, at any campus and at any level of Senate service.” “Bob has a unique combination of personal gifts, deep commitment to the institution, and informal authority among his colleagues that enable him to contribute in ways that very few others can. He is a campus treasure.” At Berkeley since 1983, Professor Anderson has been Chair of the Economics Department twice, the second time stepping in for a year on an interim basis. His campus service includes numerous ad hoc, advisory, and administrative committees. For nine consecutive years (1996-2005), Professor Anderson was the Academic Senate Parliamentarian, and he has been a continuing member of the Senate Faculty Welfare Committee since 1994, chairing that committee 2-1/2 years out of the past 15. Professor Anderson has immersed himself in a variety of issues that touch faculty and employee lives including healthcare, childcare, domestic partner benefits, faculty compensation, pensions, and even less lofty matters like the campus bus system. His contributions to and impact on Berkeley and the University are profound and lasting. Professor Anderson is that rare individual who epitomizes the ideal of shared governance expressed in this award, and the Faculty Awards Committee was enormously pleased to accord him this honor. |
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| LEON A. HENKIN CITATION FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE | |||
The Leon A. Henkin Citation for Distinguished Service recognizes a member of the Berkeley faculty who shows exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy. The Citation was created as a tribute to Professor Henkin’s work to increase equity and access to higher education and to promote the academic, personal, and professional success of Berkeley students from groups traditionally underrepresented in academic disciplines. |
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Dr. John Matsui 2008 |
John Matsui, Biology Scholars Program Dr. Matsui was nominated for the Henkin Citation by Senior Researcher Anne MacLachlan for his exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the Academy. He has devoted his professional life to increasing the diversity of individuals with careers in the sciences, developing the unique Biology Scholars Program over the last fifteen years, a program which has “very successfully promoted undergraduate student achievement of diverse students,” as one nominating letter says. It continues to note that “his vision, his constant vigilance with himself and his staff has resulted in an extraordinary program which emphasizes the individual talent of each student. His vision is totally inclusionary….” Dr. Matsui urges those in education to pay attention to the “science of diversifying science,” and, in addition to his work at Berkeley, he works at the national level to assist other institutions interested in setting up their own versions of a Biology Scholars Program. |
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DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD |
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The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award, is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact. While acknowledging the fact that the Berkeley faculty comprises many outstanding teachers, the Committee on Teaching is extremely selective in determining the recipients of this award: only 223 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959. For more information see http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta.html. |
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