Word: berkeley
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...when they fail, their members often go on to join other tribes, now that there is a network of communes available to them. Benjamin Zablocki. a Berkeley sociologist who has visited more than 100 communes in the past six years, insists: "The children are incredibly fine. It's natural for children to be raised in extended families, where there are many adults." Yet in spite of the talk of extended families, the extension in the new communes does not reach to a third generation. Indeed, the "families" have a narrow age span, and it is possible that the children have...
...report estimates, 540 additional campuses are cutting back; 1,000 others may soon be forced to follow suit. In fact, about 77% of U.S. collegians now attend schools that are either "headed for trouble" or already "in financial difficulty." Moreover, these hard-pressed campuses include such eminent institutions as Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan and Stanford...
Outstripped Income. Based on an analysis of 41 representative private and public campuses (U.S. total: 2,500), the Carnegie study was directed by Dr. Earl F. Cheit, a Berkeley professor of business administration who once served...
...Berkeley's executive vice chancellor. As Cheit explains it, the rising costs of recent improvements (better salaries, courses, scholarships, community service) have increasingly outstripped income from endowments, gifts, grants and Government...
...Louis University has scrapped its schools of aeronautical science and dentistry, letting 40 faculty members go in the process; at Harvard, programs have shrunk in the schools of design, divinity and education. Berkeley is doing without research institutes in social sciences and earthquakes; Tulane has dropped six graduate programs. Predominantly black Fisk is phasing out its Afro-American Institute. For every cutback mentioned in the report, says Cheit, there are many more at other institutions. Numerous schools are reducing urban-service programs, library books and scholarships for poor or minority-group students...