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UC Berkeley opens its doors to about 5,000 of the most promising Californian students each year. It is a breathtaking engine of mobility.
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UC Berkeley opens its doors to about 5,000 of the most promising Californian students each year. It is a breathtaking engine of mobility.
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We collected the 100 most popular memes from 11 campus Facebook meme groups, assembling a visual history of the dramatic development of these pages.
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Among them are award-winning scholars, lauded department chairs and highly paid NCAA coaches. This database summarizes information from hundreds of pages of UC documents.
UC Berkeley has seen changes in more than half of the chancellor’s cabinet — 14 top administrative positions — since April 2015. Several positions are currently vacant as key administrators have announced their resignations.
The Daily Californian processed the last decade of payroll information for UC Berkeley faculty, creating the most complete, searchable database of professor and lecturer pay by campus department.
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a significant victory to supporters of affirmative action June 23 when it upheld the consideration of race in the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. But the decision won’t impact the university’s admissions policy because California state law supersedes the verdict.
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On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions — a decision that has been met with both optimism and frustration by those affiliated with the UC system, as its admissions policies will not be affected by the verdict.
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How safe is UC Berkeley? The Daily Californian analyzed five years of police reports to see where and when crime occurs most often.
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State disinvestment, rising tuition costs, more out-of-state students, increased private research funding and a greater emphasis on alumni giving have left some questioning whether UC Berkeley is drifting farther from its public mission and closer to the private universities with which it has always competed.
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