http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sharedservices.berkeley.edu/wordpress2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CSSITsuccessstory_FINAL_4_18.pdf http://sharedservices.berkeley.edu/wordpress2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CSSITsuccessstory_FINAL_4_18.pdf#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 21:29:22 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34590 In mid January, Campus Shared Services Information Technology began supporting more than 3,700 UC Berkeley staff from its home base in West Berkeley. The IT group, which has been closely tracking customer satisfaction through anonymous surveys and user testimonials, reports on campus users' largely positive feedback so far. ]]> http://sharedservices.berkeley.edu/wordpress2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CSSITsuccessstory_FINAL_4_18.pdf/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/17/campus-shared-services-launches-first-phase-of-it-support/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/17/campus-shared-services-launches-first-phase-of-it-support/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:40:18 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33857 Starting Jan. 17, Campus Shared Services is providing IT support for all faculty and staff in the Chancellor’s Office, units within VCAF, IST and the Office of the CIO, as well as groups that previously received IT service from DOCS. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/17/campus-shared-services-launches-first-phase-of-it-support/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/25/33322/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/25/33322/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:12:26 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33322 To comply with recent decisions at the UC systemwide level, UC Berkeley is planning to move to a bi-weekly pay cycle for non-exempt employees (those eligible to earn overtime). These changes will result in an expedited rollout of CalTime.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/25/33322/feed/ 0 http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/CampusBudgetCalPlanning.shtml http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/CampusBudgetCalPlanning.shtml#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:08:29 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33176 Members of the campus community recently got their first look at UC Berkeley's new budget plan, the product of months of collaboration between finance staff, the Budget Office and the Operational Excellence CalPlanning project team. Now, the OE-funded system CalPlanning allows campus finance staff to learn new processes, develop financial-analysis and planning skills, and foster a more strategic approach to campus finances.]]> http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/CampusBudgetCalPlanning.shtml/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/01/culturecal-online-brainstorm/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/01/culturecal-online-brainstorm/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:00:58 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32995 The campus launched a first-of-its-kind online brainstorming session Monday that seeks to define Berkeley’s organizational culture. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/01/culturecal-online-brainstorm/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/17/idmg-summer-school-symposium/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/17/idmg-summer-school-symposium/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:30:06 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32427 UC Berkeley builds momentum for its multi-year effort to overhaul how the campus manages data, from student financial aid to staff diversity to equipment purchasing.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/17/idmg-summer-school-symposium/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/energy-incentive-program-launches/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/energy-incentive-program-launches/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:08:40 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32592 There's little incentive to conserve when someone else pays the bill. So the new Energy Incentive Program aims to motivate building occupants and managers to bring down electricity usage. It's one part of Operational Excellence's energy program, and it's projected to save the campus a sizable chunk of change each year, as well as shrink its carbon footprint.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/energy-incentive-program-launches/feed/ 0 http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/ServiceandTechnologySurvey.shtml http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/ServiceandTechnologySurvey.shtml#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:14:12 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32313 UC Berkeley staff are being urged to fill out the online survey that aims to measure their satisfaction with administrative services, technology and tools and their workplace experience. ]]> http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/ServiceandTechnologySurvey.shtml/feed/ 0 http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/LDP2012.shtml http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/LDP2012.shtml#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:47:44 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32310 Just before their graduation from UC Berkeley's Leadership Development Program, three teams of staffers presented their findings on how to boost the campus's "high-performance culture."]]> http://oe.berkeley.edu/news/LDP2012.shtml/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/16/shared-services/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/16/shared-services/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 20:55:42 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30728 UC Berkeley has signed a lease for a building to house the new Campus Shared Services (CSS) Center. The building is located at 1608 Fourth St., on the edge of Berkeley's Fourth Street retail district, and the first 170 staff will move in this fall. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/16/shared-services/feed/ 0 http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Mar-Apr2012/email-calendar-contest http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Mar-Apr2012/email-calendar-contest#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:43:35 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=26724 Members of the campus community are invited to submit Berkeley-specific names for the new email and calendar services, to be provided by Google as part of the OE Productivity Suite. The contest deadline is March 19, with a $250 gift card as the prize for the winning entry.]]> http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Mar-Apr2012/email-calendar-contest/feed/ 0 http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses#information http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses#information#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:55:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23552 To support Operational Excellence, the Center for Organizational and Workforce Effectiveness (COrWE), in cooperation with UC Berkeley Extension, is providing free tuition at the time of enrollment for a number of workforce-development Extension courses during 2012. ]]> http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses#information/feed/ 0 http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:32:58 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23258 To support Operational Excellence, the Center for Organizational and Workforce Effectiveness (COrWE), in cooperation with UC Berkeley Extension, is providing free tuition at the time of enrollment for selected Extension courses. ]]> http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/news/free-extension-courses/feed/ 0 http://technology.berkeley.edu/productivity-suite/google/index.html http://technology.berkeley.edu/productivity-suite/google/index.html#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:00:46 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=22753 UC Berkeley has selected Google Apps for Education as the campus's new calendar and email platform. The decision, finalized on Wednesday, followed months of detailed evaluation as part of the OE Productivity Suite project. Migration to the new platform will occur over the next 12 months; more details on the new tools and timeline will be available in January.]]> http://technology.berkeley.edu/productivity-suite/google/index.html/feed/ 0 http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/ChancellorBirgeneausFall2011WelcomeandStateoftheCampusMessage.htm http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/ChancellorBirgeneausFall2011WelcomeandStateoftheCampusMessage.htm#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:49:51 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15627 As the fall semester begins, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau looks at the challenges resulting from the steep loss of state funding for UC and Berkeley, and — despite the obstacles — sees a campus moving forward on a number of major fronts.]]> http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/ChancellorBirgeneausFall2011WelcomeandStateoftheCampusMessage.htm/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/25/rjb-briefing/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/25/rjb-briefing/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:46:35 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15522 In his annual back-to-school media briefing, the chancellor was cautiously upbeat, insisting that despite Berkeley's budget woes, the campus has managed to maintain its standing among the nation's great universities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/25/rjb-briefing/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:30:50 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15049 Born of financial crisis, Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/25/chancellor-birgeneau-addresses-staff-assembl/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/25/chancellor-birgeneau-addresses-staff-assembl/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 00:16:28 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=12143 Chancellor Robert Birgeneau sought solace in relativity Tuesday as he strained to strike an upbeat note during his state-of-the-campus address to the Berkeley Staff Assembly.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/25/chancellor-birgeneau-addresses-staff-assembl/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/08/budget_wilton/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/08/budget_wilton/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:40:58 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=9030 Chancellor Birgeneau recently unveiled a strategy to bridge Berkeley's funding gap "by utilizing all of the resources at our disposal." The NewsCenter spoke with John Wilton, the campus's new vice chancellor for administration and finance, for a closer look at what might be in store in 2011-12. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/08/budget_wilton/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/01/budget_letter/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/01/budget_letter/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:51:56 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=8519 In his annual budget call letter to vice chancellors, Chancellor Birgeneau lays out a strategy to bridge Berkeley's funding gap "by utilizing all of the resources at our disposal."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/01/budget_letter/feed/ 0