UC Berkeley Academic Senate

Awards


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.

	Chancellor Emeritus Carl Pister 2007	Chancellor Emeritus Karl Stark Pister was awarded the 2007 CLARK KERR MEDAL for his auspicious record of achievement to the advancement of higher education. In his citation for the award, Faculty Awards Chair David Wake noted Professor Pister's "multidimensional contributions to higher education within a framework of idealism and practicality, his outstanding scholarship, his leadership at critical times in the history of the University of California, and his collegial sense of obligation and service in the legacy of Clark Kerr."

Clark Kerr Award Recipients

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. Over their careers, candidates for the award will have made contributions and exemplified outstanding service that have had a lasting and significant impact on the academic excellence of the Berkeley campus. The Faculty Awards Committee took great pleasure in selecting Professors Herma Hill Kay and Carol Clover as joint recipients of the 2007 Berkeley Faculty Service Award

	Professor Herma Hill Kay 2007	Herma Hill Kay: Professor Kay's lengthy list of service contributions at both the campus and Systemwide level, reflects a level of commitment to the ideal of shared governance that the Faculty Awards Committee takes pride in recognizing this year. A recipient of the campus Teaching Award, she was Chair of the Senate from January 1973 - September 1974. Further, she chaired four Senate committees: COT, P&T, BIR and Academic Freedom, and she recently chaired the Systemwide UCAF. She also served as a member of numerous other committees of the Senate. Another notable achievement is her service as the Dean of Boalt Law School from 1992-2000. She was the first woman to serve in this capacity as well as to chair BIR. Professor Kay is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her contributions to several legal areas as well as for her commitment to improving the status of women and minorities in the field of law.

	Emeritus Professor Carol Clover 2007	Carol Clover: Beginning with her appointment to AEPE in 1984, Emeritus Professor Carol Clover has served on key Senate committees, including Budget and Interdepartmental Relations (chairing the committee in 1993-94) CAPRA and COMS. She has also represented the Senate on the Systemwide University Committee on Academic Personnel and was a member of the 1996-97 Chancellor's Search Committee. Not only did she serve her fellow Senate members tirelessly and with great distinction, but she also demonstrated a capacity for leadership and ability to effect change. She took advantage of these talents in her administrative positions that including service as Chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies (twice) and Assistant Dean in the College of Letters & Science (2-year term). Additionally, she was a founding member of the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group. Professor Clover performed these duties while becoming one of the world's leading scholars in Scandinavian studies, rhetoric and film.


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.

	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.

Distinguished Teaching Award
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.