UC President Mark Yudof spoke at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, answering questions about his tenure as president and the complicated problems that public higher education has faced in recent years. Yudof, who is set to step down in August after almost five years in office, leaves behind a mixed Read More…
The Berkeley Forum hosted a panel on the federal fiscal crisis Wednesday evening, bringing together prominent speakers from both ends of the political spectrum to discuss pressing political and economic issues facing the nation. Read More…
Reading The Daily Californian article “Cal Athletics receives $10 million donation for programs, infrastructure,” it is apparent that Cal is lucky to have such generous benefactors as Lisa and Doug Goldman. Past donations from the Goldman family supported the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley as well as Read More…
UC Berkeley students have initiated a campaign for an oil tax to generate funds for education among other government entities. Californians for Responsible Economic Development – the student-run committee – hopes to repeat the success of Proposition 30 by focusing on mobilizing students. Read More…
Following a 23-year-long career with UC Berkeley, Bruce Cain, formerly a campus professor of political science and executive director of the UC Washington Center, left campus earlier this year for a position at Stanford University. Read More…
Independent United States presidential candidate Buddy Roemer will speak at the Goldman School of Public Policy Tuesday. Roemer, a four-term congressman and former governor of Louisiana, will speak in Room 105 of the public policy school at 6 p.m. He was a congressman from 1981 to 1988 as a “Conservative Read More…
In a recently-published study co-authored by a UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor, statistical research methods widely used by researchers were proven instead sometimes to yield false results. In the study, Leif Nelson and researchers Joseph Simmons and Uri Simonsohn from the Wharton School of Business ran a test Read More…
Cal Athletics has received a $10 million gift from the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, a donation that was officially announced Monday and which will be used to support various programs within the athletics department.
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Campus deans and student leaders will meet Tuesday for the second installment of the Future of Public Universities forum, which will feature five speakers who will discuss the roles of taxation, citizenship and protest in the current higher education financial crisis. The forum — which will take place from noon Read More…
