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...happens, California is poised to cut the UC system's funding even further next year. “We are operating on the assumption that the state’s disinvestment will continue,” Berkeley's Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told The New York Times...
...earns $90,000 would have to pay as little as $4,500 to go to Harvard but would get little to no financial aid to help cover Berkeley's annual cost of $25,000. A no-loan program "is not a sustainable solution for us," says Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who is heading a task force charged with examining how to keep college affordable for all families in the state. "We'd likely not be able to help the poorest students as well down the line." (To see the evolution of the college dorm room click here...
...commitment to science might have remained strong if the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed in the late '80s. "We don't have this shadow of Sputnik or the cold war overhanging us," says Stanford's Hennessy, "and we need a different form of inspiration." In fact, says Robert Birgeneau, a physicist and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, it already exists, if only we would recognize it. "We have a different kind of war, an economic war," he says. "The importance of investing in long-term research for winning that war hasn't been understood...
...full participation by, women faculty.” Summers had yet to be appointed president at the time. Aside from Summers, Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman, the other presidents to sign yesterday’s statement were: CalTech’s David Baltimore, UC Berkeley’s Robert Birgeneau, UMich’s Mary Sue Coleman, UPenn’s Amy Gutmann, and Yale’s Richard C. Levin. Levin faced protests from graduate students on his campus last February for not condemning Summers’ remarks on women in science. —ZACHARY M. SEWARD
...Robert J. Birgeneau, Dean of MIT's School of Science says that administrators at other universities have been skeptical of the conclusions of the MIT study...