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Academic Senate
University of California
1111 Franklin St.,
12th Floor
Oakland, CA
94607-5200
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2006 Recipient
Michael Cowan, a founding member of UC Santa Cruz and UCSC Professor of American Studies and Literature, has demonstrated exceptional leadership on numerous committees and task forces of the Academic Senate. He began serving on Senate committees in 1969, his first year at UCSC, and was the only person to serve twice as chair of the Santa Cruz Academic Senate, in 1979-80 and from 1994 to 1996. He worked closely with the administration on divisional and systemwide Planning and Budget committees before becoming Universitywide Academic Senate chair in 2000.
In 1997, Cowan received the first Dean McHenry Award for Distinguished Leadership — given by the UCSC Academic Senate to acknowledge outstanding service.
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2006 Recipient
Karl S. Pister is Chancellor Emeritus of UC Santa Cruz (1991-96), former chair of the Academic Senate (1979-80) former dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and former Vice President for Educational Outreach. He joined the UC Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor of civil engineering in 1952 and began his Senate service that same year on the Berkeley Library Committee. He served for several years on Berkeley’s Educational Policy Committee and the Universitywide Committee on Educational Policy, before becoming systemwide Senate Chair in 1979. He is a recipient of the Berkeley Medal and the Presidential Medal of the University of California. In 2006, the California Alumni Association named him Alumnus of the Year.
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2004 Recipient
Aimee Dorr, Professor of Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UC Los Angeles, was an exceptionally effective leader of the UC faculty. She served in numerous Senate leadership positions, including Chair of the UCLA Graduate Council in 1991-92 and Chair of CCGA in 1993-94. She was Vice Chair and Chair of the UCLA Division (1995-96; 1996-97) and Vice Chair and Chair of the systemwide Academic Senate (1997-98; 1998-99). Professor Dorr was particularly instrumental in the development of significant policies and standards relating to graduate student affairs. |
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2004 Recipient
Calvin C. Moore, Mathematics Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, played a pivotal role in shaping admissions and eligibility policy at the University and successfully guided the Senate at a time when admissions policies were challenged legally and under intense scrutiny. As a five-year member of the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS), he helped forge the universitywide transition to Comprehensive Review and helped lead major UC initiatives in admissions and eligibility.
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2002 Recipient
Arnold Binder, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law and Society
at UC Irvine began his service to the Senate in 1967 on the
Committee on Athletics and followed with an array of divisional
and systemwide committees. His service as Chair of the University
Committee on Academic Personnel, Coordinating Committee on
Graduate Affairs, University Committee on Planning and Budget,
Vice Chair and Chair of the Academic Council in 1992-94,
and Chair of the Irvine Division in 1995-1998 represent
a record, or near record, total number of years of seating
on the Academic Council.
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2000 Recipient
Fred Spiess, Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at UC San Diego,
first began his Senate work in the 1960s, when he took part
in the formulation of UCSD's policy on conduct of classified
research and chaired a Universitywide Senate committee on
the status of non-Senate Academic personnel. During his long
Senate career, Professor Spiess served on numerous systemwide
and divisional committees. He was Chair of the San Diego
Division in 1985-86 and Chair of the Academic Council in
1989-90. He was also the first chair of the Senate Task Force
for establishment of the UC Merced campus, serving from 1998-2001. |
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1998 Recipient
Carlton Bovell, Professor Emeritus of Biology at UC Riverside,
participated in Academic Senate affairs through out his 40-year
career at the University. Professor Bovell took on his first
UCR Senate committee post in 1959 and continued his service
on a number of Senate committees. He served as Chair of the
universitywide Senate Task Force on Governance, Chair of
the Riverside Division in 1974-78, and Chair of the Academic
Council in 1990-91. |
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1998 Recipient
W. Elliot Brownlee, Professor Emeritus of
History at UC Santa Barbara, provided exceptional service contributions
to the University, both at the divisional and systemwide level.
Professor Brownlee came to UCSB in 1968 but before he gained
tenure he had chaired its Special Committee on the Status of
Assistant Professors. He went on to become Chair of the Santa
Barbara Division in 1983-84 and 1988-90, and Chair of the Academic
Council in 1992-93. He had a central interest in academic planning and played an important role in devising the University's approach to the fiscal crisis of the early 1990s. |
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