On Campus (November 17, 1989)

              On Campus
FOR THE UC SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY
November 17, 1989
Charting the
course of
the campus
This special edition of On
Campus contains the complete text of addresses Chancellor Stevens and Academic
Vice Chancellor Tanner
delivered at the October 11
meeting of the Academic
Senate. Publication of this
edition was postponed following the earthquake.
From the chancellor:
I appreciate this opportunity
of speaking at the first
meeting. I shall speak for a
few minutes and then yield my
time to the new academic vice
chancellor.
I believe that in the Academic Vice Chancellor's Office,
Michael Tanner will provide
outstanding leadership and will
take the office's responsibilities
as chief academic officer with
efficiency, energy, diligence,
and a sense of humor. I
am also pleased that Mark
Traugott has agreed to become
associate vice chancellor for
academic affairs. I know he,
too, will bring similar yet complementary strengths to those
that Michael brings to this
office.
I am also pleased to welcome Gary Lease as the associate chancellor, which, as you
know, is a new position. I look
forward to working with Gary
on many of the day-to-day
responsibilities of the Chancellor's Office. These responsi-
[Photograph] Robert Stevens
bilities he will share with Julia
Armstrong, who will be working
both with Michael Tanner and
with me. I believe these appointments and arrangements
will provide me not only with
sound advice and great energy,
but will enable the Chancellor's
Office to give better service to
faculty, students, staff, and administrators.
In thanking the new persons
in my office and in the Academic Vice Chancellor's Office,
I should also like to thank
Ronnie Gruhn and Charles
Daniel for all they did over the
last two years. Ronnie brought
great energy and analytical
rigor to the office, and I am
grateful to the Senate Advisory
Committee for recommending
her when I found myself an
AVC-less chancellor-designate.
I am also grateful to Charles
Daniel for his willingness to
disrupt his research to act as
guide, philosopher, and friend
on so many issues of both an
academic and nonacademic
nature.
I am also pleased to welcome Harry Harootunian as
dean of humanities. Harry, as
you know, is a distinguished
scholar of Japanese history, a
man widely respected both in
humanities and social sciences,
and someone who will bring to
this campus great strengths as
scholar, teacher, and administrator. In connection with that
appointment, I should like to
thank Hayden White for acting
as dean of humanities during
the summer, as I would also
like to thank Bill Doyle for his
efforts as acting dean of natural sciences during the summer. Both performed with the
great energy and wisdom we
have come to expect from them.
I am pleased, too, that Clif
Poodry has agreed to serve as
acting dean of natural sciences
this year. As you know, we
have an active search for a new
dean of the social sciences,
under the chairmanship of
John Marcum. As chair of the
natural science search, I have
appointed Bob Kraft, and I
trust you will give both Bob
and John your support, especially in the way of generating
names.
I should also like to say how
sorry we are to be losing Bob
Bickal, director of labor relations, who has been lured off to
an attractive position at Harvard. Bob has been a wise
adviser on personnel and labor
matters to this campus and to
the system for many years. I
would similarly like to thank
the retiring provosts for their
contributions, and I should like
to welcome the new provosts—
Kathy Foley, George Amis,
Ron Henderson, and Gerry
Vizenor— and to wish you all a
very successful year.
Let me just briefly outline