A Look at Cal The University of California CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION Cummins has had an association with Cal since 1972 when he was ROBERT J. BIRGENEAU appointed research coordinator at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, conducting research on the role and responsibility of universities CHANCELLOR to their larger host communities. In 1974, he began a 10-year tenure as Robert J. Birgeneau, an internationally the public service coordinator and founding director of the California distinguished physicist, was appointed the ninth Policy Seminar of the Institute of Governmental Studies. chancellor of the University of California by the In 1984, Cummins was promoted to assistant chancellor–chief of staff, UC Board of Regents in July and took his new also serving as the university’s public affairs officer from 1986-91. In post in October. 2002, he was elevated to associate chancellor. Birgeneau, 62, served as president of the University of Toronto from Prior to his arrival in Berkeley, Cummins was an assistant to the dean 2000-04. He previously was dean of the School of Science at the in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent 25 years on the from 1970-72. faculty. He has been elected a foreign associate of the National Academy Cummins earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Marquette, of Sciences, has received numerous awards for teaching and research, and and pursued studies in the master’s program there in theology. He is one of the most highly cited physicists in the world. received a Ph.D. in education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A Toronto native and the first in his family to finish high school, in 1972. Birgeneau received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1966. JESSE H. CHOPER He served on the faculty of Yale for one year and then spent one year at Oxford University. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell FACULTY Laboratories from 1968-75 and then joined MIT as a professor of REPRESENTATIVE physics. He was named head of the physics department in 1988, and in 1991 was appointed dean of science. He became the 14th president of the Jesse Choper, the Earl Warren Professor of University of Toronto on July 1, 2000. Public Law and a former dean of Boalt Hall, A leader on gender issues within higher education, Birgeneau is well serves as Cal’s faculty athletics representative. known for his commitment to diversity and equity in the academic Appointed to the FAR position this past community. He will hold a faculty appointment in UC Berkeley’s summer, Choper provides oversight and advice in the administration of Department of Physics, in addition to serving as chancellor. the athletics program. He is empowered by the NCAA to represent Cal Birgeneau has published extensively and has received many honors for in dealings with both the NCAA and the Pacific-10 Conference, and his research. In 1987, he was awarded the O.E. Buckley Prize of the advises the chancellor on campus policies relating to student-athletes. American Physical Society. The only other Canadian to win this award Choper served as law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. is Dr. Bertram Brockhouse of McMaster University, who later was Supreme Court following graduation from law school. He taught at the awarded the Nobel Prize. In 2000, Birgeneau received the J.E. Lilienfeld Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania from Prize of the American Physical Society, given to a physicist who has made 1957-60 and at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1961-65. outstanding contributions to physics and has exceptional talent at He joined the Boalt faculty at Cal in 1965. Choper has been a visiting explaining physics to diverse audiences. He was elected a fellow of the professor at Harvard Law School and Fordham Law School and served Royal Society of London in 2001 and the Royal Society of Canada in as dean of Boalt Hall from 1982-92. 2002. From 1979-98, Choper was one of the three major lecturers at U.S. Law He and his wife, Mary Catherine, have four grown children. Week’s Annual Constitutional Law Conference in Washington. He has delivered 20 titled lectures at major universities throughout the country, including the Cooley Lectures at Michigan, the Stevens Lecture at JOHN F. CUMMINS Cornell, the Baum Lecture at Illinois and the Lockhart Lecture at ASSOC. CHANCELLOR/ Minnesota. He has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools and on the executive council of the American CHIEF OF STAFF Academy of Arts and Sciences (of which he is vice president). He was As the associate chancellor and chief of staff a national president of the Order of the Coif and is a member of the for the University of California campus, Dr. John American Law Institute. In 1998, he received the UC Berkeley F. Cummins provides coordination and liaison Distinguished Teaching Award. with other senior campus officers on any matter Choper’s major publications include the books, Judicial Review and of interest to the Chancellor, including analysis and advice on policy the National Political Process: A Functional Reconsideration of the Role development and implementation. He additionally provides coordination of the Supreme Court, which received the Order of the Coif Triennial and liaison between the Chancellor’s Office and the Office of the Book Award in 1982, and Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for President. Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses. His recent publications A member of the senior management team, Cummins, whose duties include the ninth edition of his Constitutional Law casebooks; the sixth include oversight of Intercollegiate Athletics, represents the Chancellor edition of his Corporations casebook; the second edition of The Supreme in coordinating responses to campus emergencies, including protests. He Court and Its Justices; “The Endorsement Test: Its Status and serves as the Berkeley Campus Local Designated Official under the Desirability,” in the Virginia Journal of Law and Politics (2002); and University’s Whistleblower policy to receive retaliation complaints and “Taming Congress’s Power Under the Commerce Clause: What Does the administer local implementing procedures. He also has responsibility for Near Future Portend?” in the Arkansas Law Review (2002). handling records requests under federal FOIA and state PRA regulations Choper received his bachelor of science degree from Wilkes University and guidelines. in 1957, his law degree from Penn in 1960 and his doctorate from Wilkes in 1967. 150 2004-05 BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SANDY BARBOUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Anne “Sandy” Barbour, deputy director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame and former athletic director at Tulane University, was named director of athletics at the University of California on Sept. 15. Barbour replaces Steve Gladstone, who announced in June his plans to step down as athletic director after three years and return to coaching the Cal rowing teams full time. “This is my first appointment in my new role at Berkeley. I simply can’t imagine a better appointment. I consider it a real privilege to appoint Sandy Barbour as Cal’s new athletic director, “ said UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. “I have every confidence she will have a huge impact on our program. “Cal represents everything that’s right with higher education and intercollegiate athletics,” said Barbour, 44. “I am thrilled and flattered to be given this opportunity. This is what I have been working toward my entire life. It’s a dream come true, both personally and professionally.” Barbour will head a Division I intercollegiate athletic program that fields 27 sports with an annual budget of about $40 million. At Notre Dame, Barbour is the deputy director of athletics, serving as the university’s senior athletic administrator under Athletic Director Kevin White since July 2003. She previously held associate athletic director positions there starting in 2000. Her career in intercollegiate athletic administration spans 22 years, will feature a centralized football operation, as well as sports medicine beginning as a field hockey assistant coach and lacrosse administrative and strength and conditioning facilities. Under Barbour’s supervision, the assistant at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She has since served construction of the new facility is due for completion in June 2005. as assistant athletic director at Northwestern University and in 1991 was In addition, her role at Notre Dame included responsibilities for recruited to Tulane University as an associate athletic director. women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s cross country, indoor and While at Tulane, Barbour also worked for White – then Tulane’s outdoor track, men’s and women’s swimming and men’s golf. She also athletic director. At the age of 36, she was appointed Tulane’s director assisted White with the administration of women’s basketball. of athletics when White left in 1996 for a similar position at Arizona State Born Dec. 2, 1959, in Annapolis, Md., Barbour grew up in a military University. family. Her father was a career aviator in the U.S. Navy, and her family During her three years as athletic director, Tulane teams won 12 lived in various U.S. locations as well as in Western Europe during her conference championships. In her first year in the position, Tulane won childhood. four conference titles, a feat never before accomplished in that school’s Barbour graduated cum laude in 1981 with a B.S. degree in physical history. She also hired Tommy Bowden as Tulane’s head football coach education from Wake Forest University, where she was a four-year letter during her first year.