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Operational Excellence in 2012 - An Exciting Year for UC Berkeley

An unprecedented number of OE projects are rolling out across campus in 2012. View a slide presentation on the vision for where UC Berkeley will be by the end of the year and the preparations to achieve these results. Go>

Campus Selects Google as New Email and Calendar Solution

After several months of detailed evaluation as part of the OE Productivity Suite project, and following on the recent CalMail outage, the campus has completed the selection process for a new campus calendar and email platform. We are pleased to announce that today we have signed a contract to provide our community with the full Google Apps for Education Suite. This solution will enable the campus to migrate all students, faculty, and staff to the new service during 2012. Read>

New Analysis of Unit Restructuring Published

As part of its commitment to equity & inclusion, the University has evaluated the Unit Restructuring project completed June 30, 2011 and concluded that there was no statistically significant findings indicating legal disparate impact based on gender, race, or ethnicity. The report was previewed with the Coalition of Ethnic Staff Organizations on January 18, 2012 and is available here. Read>

Microsoft Products Now Available to Faculty, Staff, and Students

As a part of Operational Excellence, UC Berkeley has signed a campus license agreement to provide the most commonly used Microsoft software to all faculty, staff, and students at no cost to individuals or departments for the 2011–12 fiscal year. Read>

MATLAB Now Available to Faculty, Staff, and Students at no charge

As part of Operational Excellence, UC Berkeley is pleased to announce a campus site license that provides MATLAB statistical analysis to all campus faculty, staff, and students at no cost to individuals or departments for 2012. Read >

Twenty-Five Things Staff Want to Know About OE

This fall, the OE Program Office worked with the Chancellor's Staff Advisory Committee to develop 25 questions and answers that try to capture what staff want to know about OE. Read>>

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