The 2012 gross salaries of more than 191,000 career faculty and staff employees, as well as part-time, temporary and student employees are disclosed in a searchable database on the UC website. Read More…
Summer readers, lifelong bookworms, nerds and closet nerds have another reason to be happy in Berkeley. According to Amazon, Berkeley is among the top 20 “most well-read” cities in the country. Though rankings are determined by sales alone, we can experience Berkeley’s bibliophilia just by walking around. Our campus offers Read More…
The Daily Californian reached out to prominent professors and instructors for their parting advice to the graduating class. Here are their responses, which were sent via email. Professors and instructors who responded: Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy Terry Johnson, Department of Bioengineering Alan Ross, Haas School of Business Read More…
SFIFF Master Class: Making the Music Doc Rock with Lian Lunson Not many people can claim that their job is working with figures such as Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Willie Nelson. Australian actress-turned filmmaker Lian Lunson will speak about her unexpected and intriguing career in this master class for Read More…
Curious about how much your professor makes? The Sacramento Bee has a nifty search engine that lets you effortlessly look up the salary of any state employee. Just search your professor’s name, choose UC Berkeley as the department and choose 2011 for the year (there doesn’t seem to be any Read More…
For those of you who are midterm-submerged, cheeks-still-bulging-from-Taco-Tuesday fare, the Clog has come to fill your political fix. To help you make those A+ contributions to your discussion (or impress that attractive poli sci GSI), we’ve compiled a list of the most important takeaways from the Federal Budget panel Wednesday 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…
According to a report released last month by the UC Berkeley department of economics, the top 1 percent of earners have made immense income gains while incomes of the bottom 99 percent have stagnated and declined. Read More…
The amount of outstanding student loans is on the rise according to a report released in November by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Read More…
Hundreds crowded into Pauley Ballroom for the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Wednesday evening, given this year by Anthony “Van” Jones, who served on President Barack Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality. Read More…
