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UC Berkeley’s chief financial officer, Rosemarie Rae, laid out her vision for the campus’s budget and took questions from a standing-room-only audience of faculty, students and staff during a Friday forum. Read the complete article.

CalPlanning Community,

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

The Controller’s Office has rolled out a simplified travel reimbursement process that eliminates duplicate data entry by CSS, shortens processing time to payment and puts more control of the process in the hands of employee-travelers.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos sent a letter to Deans and Vice Chancellors requesting they submit their FY2018-19 strategic plans to the Office of the EVCP at evcp@berkeley.edu by Friday, February 2. 

CalPlanning Community,

Dear members of the campus community:

You may recall earlier this year we announced that our campus would be better served if the portfolio of the former Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance was separated into two: one focused on financial issues and one focused on administrative issues. At that time, Rosemarie Rae was elevated to the role of Vice Chancellor of Finance and Chief Financial Officer while this September, Marc Fisher joined us from UC Santa Barbara to become Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor of Administration.

Associate Vice Chancellor of Capital Strategies Rajiv Parikh sent campus leadership an announcement today about his department's recent and upcoming changes.

Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized UC Berkeley with a Gold Bicycle Friendly UniversitySM (BFUSM) award, joining more than 180 visionary colleges and universities from across the country.

Colleagues,

In order to align the functions of the Real Estate portfolio with the organizations that best support their work, we are pleased to announce that the Capital Strategies department is now a part of the VC Finance organization and the Facilities department is a part of the VC Administration organization. Capital Strategies is led by Associate Vice Chancellor Rajiv Parikh and Facilities is led by Associate Vice Chancellor Sally McGarrahan. We encourage you to learn more about these restructured functions on their websites:

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UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent this message today to the campus community:

Dear students, faculty and staff,

Sierra magazine recently released their "Cool Schools 2017" list, which ranks colleges and universities with a commitment to sustainability. Sierra magazine (the national magazine of the Sierra Club) partners with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education to complete the annual survey.

It’s back-to-school week at UC Berkeley, and as thousands of students converge on the campus, Chancellor Carol Christ and her team issued a warm welcome and took questions from the media.

This is a time of beginnings, she said — new students embarking on their college or graduate school years, new faculty beginning their Berkeley careers.

Credit: Berkeley News
Link to article: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/07/10/berkeley-ranks-4th-in-u-s-for-delivering-value/