About our graduate department listening tourIn October 2019, Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division is embarking on campuswide listening tour to engage all graduate departments at UC Berkeley. Please visit this webpage for notes and documentation on our progress, as well as data about recurrent concerns and themes. The conversations with each department will center around three key questions: What do you think is working in your graduate program(s)? What do you see as the greatest challenges your department is facing with regard to graduate education? What do you think Graduate Division’s role should be in order to support your department’s efforts? Scheduled Dates: October 7, 2019 – Arts & Humanities October 25, 2019 – Comparative Literature October 30, 2019 – Rhetoric November 6, 2019 – History of Art December 5, 2019 – Music December 6, 2019 – Social Sciences December 11, 2019 – French December 12, 2019 – English February 12, 2020 – Mechanical Engineering February 13, 2020 – Social Welfare February 26, 2020 – Industrial Engineering & Operations Research March 4, 2020 – East Asian Languages & Cultures March 10, 2020 – Materials Science & Engineering April 10, 2020 – Film April 13, 2020 – Geography April 23, 2020 – Mathematics September 28, 2020 – Linguistics October 2, 2020 – Agriculture & Resource Economics October 12, 2020 – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences October 13, 2020 – Environmental Health Sciences October 14, 2020 – Economics November 2, 2020 – History November 13, 2020 – Computational Biology November 13, 2020 – Spanish & Portuguese November 18, 2020 – Molecular & Cell Biology November 19, 2020 – Earth & Planetary Science December 1, 2020 – Health Policy December 7, 2020 – Public Policy December 8, 2020 – Plant & Microbial Biology December 14, 2020 – Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology February 3, 2021 – Energy & Resources Group February 11, 2021 – Molecular Toxicology February 16, 2021 – Integrative Biology February 26, 2021 – Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology March 3, 2021 – Near Eastern Studies March 16, 2021 – Biostatistics March 18, 2021 – Business Administration March 29, 2021 – Medical Anthropology March 31, 2021 – Psychology March 31, 2021 – Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering April 12, 2021 – Comparative Biochemistry April 16, 2021 – Applied Science & Technology April 19, 2021 – Epidemiology April 19, 2021 – Bioengineering April 20, 2021 – Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management May 3, 2021 – City & Regional Planning May 3, 2021 – Development Practice May 4, 2021 – Science & Mathematics Education May 6, 2021 – Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology May 12, 2021 – Education June 15, 2021 – Endocrinology February 4, 2022 – Journalism February 11, 2022 – Physics March 9, 2022 – Near Eastern Studies