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 The Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley, passed a
 resolution at its meeting May 12 asking the campus administration to reinstate
 admissions to the School of Library and Information Studies and criticizing
 the lack of due process and lack of consultation in suspending admissions to
 several campus units. The resolution is not binding on the administration, and
 it does not appear likely that the admissions suspensions will be reversed.
 What the resolution does is to express the views of the Academic Senate which
 represents the campus faculty.

 "We appreciate the support of the Academic Senate," says Acting Dean Nancy Van
 House. "We understand that the campus faces a serious budgetary situation. The
 Academic Senate is asking the campus administration to consider the process by
 which such decisions are made and the cumulative impact on the campus of these
 individual decisions. The administration keeps warning the state of the
 difficulty of rebuilding programs that are dismantled as a result of the
 budget crisis. The Academic Senate is warning the administration of the same
 thing."

 The other graduate programs whose admissions have been suspended are Dramatic
 Arts and Art Practice.

 Text of the resolution follows.

 For further information contact:
      Nancy Van House, Acting Dean
      School of Library and Information Studies
      510-642-9980
      Internet: slis@info.berkeley.edu

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 WHEREAS there has been a lack of due process and a lack of consultation in the
 manner in which the reviews of some units, resulting in suspension of
 admissions, have been conducted; and

 WHEREAS suspension of admissions can be tantamount to disestablishment, for
 which a formal process requiring Academic Senate and Regental review exists,

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that suspensions of admissions in any units be
 subject to Academic Senate committee review;

 BE IT ALSO RESOLVED that the Academic Senate asks the Administration to
 reestablish admissions in the School of Library and Information Studies for
 January 1994; Art Practice for Fall 1994; and the Department of Dramatic Art
 for Fall 1994; and that future suspensions of admission in these or other
 units not be made until the Area Review Panel reports have been reviewed by
 the Academic Senate;

 BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that the Academic Senate asks the Administration to
 report on the process by which decisions were made concerning these
 departments and the relationship of these decisions to Area Review Panels; and

 BE IT ALSO RESOLVED that the Academic Senate asks the Academic Planning Board
 to delay action on Art Practice until the Area Review Panel process is
 completed.