A Message to the Campus from Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

[moravecglobal]

UC Berkeley now ranked #70 forbes

[moravecglobal]

The signs of UC Berkeley’s relative decline are clear. In 2004, for example, the London-based Times Higher Education ranked UC Berkeley the second leading research university in the world, just behind Harvard; in 2009 that ranking had tumbled to 39th place. The ranking changes have occured during Chancellor Birgeneau's reign at Cal.

[moravecglobal]

UCB Chancellor Birgeneau Loss of Credibility, Trust from Faculty and Staff.

The UCB budget gap has grown to $150 million, and still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on expensive ($3 million) consultants. The Faculty and Staff do not trust the Chancellor. The Chancellor has had to bring in consultatnt to receive recommendations from Faculty and the Academic Senate.! Do something..

[Danerd9]

dis guy smiles as he talks how people got hurt

[ananiasacts]

@Danerd9, I had the same reaction... was weird, but I suspect it was more about something going on behind the camera.

[chriszeng8]

just shut up!

[overtbellicosity]

As much as he feels your pain He points out that he's not willing to share your pain which would make him a hypocrite. However his solution is for you to better manage your tolerance for pain. Looks like the entitlement buscuit wheels are coming off the public gravy train. Spend money on the homeless or a bunch of college students, Where's the shared sacrifice? Now that's change I can believe in.

[BlueandGold2009]

You could also mention with more profundity the necessity of overturning prop 13. Public education is that funded through taxes on the public, not begging donations for some imaginary pseudo-Harvard endowment, nor  the token donations from Greek undergrads that you laud.

[BlueandGold2009]

Dude, your "advocacy toolkit" consists of youtube clip of Mark 'Cemetary' Yudoff, an email finder for legislators, and an email listserv sign up sheet.

Seriously, are you joking? This either demonstrates insult, incompetence or just plain disregard.

It's time to step up out of youtube email land and demonstrate some real leadership if you want to still be called Chancellor.

[flozano8311]

You can notice how passionate the Chancellor is toward Berkeley's education and progress. He was actually next in line to become the Chancellor at MIT but decided to accept the offer at Berkeley because he believes that the key to America's success (and the world's success) lies in public, not private education.

[joeythewing]

Why the fuck is he grinning?

[moravecglobal]

Every penny of the State funds count. Cal Chancellor is spending $3,000,000 on consultants when the work can be done internally by the world class Faculty, Staff, UCB Academic Senate. Do your job Birgeneau!. Stop playing politics with $3 million: use the $ for students, faculty and staff. The faculty, staff and Academic senate have the integrity and world class knowledge to do a diagnosos and make recommendations to save $350,000,000. Contact your representative in Sacramento, & TV, Radio!

[moravecglobal]

The Chancellor is passionate about spendoing $3,000,000 on consultants when the work of the consultants ans be accomplished by the Cal world class Faculty, Staff and UCB Academic Senate. Contact your Sacramento representative, President Yudof and local radio, TV and newspapers. Save $3.000,000 for Cal's students and faculty.

[moravecglobal]

Stop spending $3,000,000 for consultants to do your job Chancellor Birgeneau

[TheSavage1776]

I will never support undocumented students. Why should a broke state or a US state in general support students with financial aid who cannot prove they are legal citizens of this country and therefore can prove that they pay taxes deserving of such aid? In addition, just a minor critique, but it would be nice to see the Californian and American Flag in the background when giving a public announcement as a holder of a public position.

[flozano8311]

disagree with your want of an californian/American flag. I understand it's a public institution but it's main goal is to educate not to represent american interests. that's just being over zealous.. it's obvious this is an American institution. you're just being picky

[TheSavage1776]

Like I said before, 'a minor critique.' You bring up a valid point, which I accept and agree with. I suppose the UC Berkeley writing in the background is sufficient enough.

[SilverNrGy985]

when it comes to "undocumented students" or "illegal aliens"? your ignorance proves that you are blinded by nationalism and patriotism, no human beings are ILLEGAL!!! SMASH THE SYSTEM, RESIST BABYLON!!!

[MasterP771]

The chancellor is absolutely right, let's direct out energy into solving these problems. If individuals can protest here and cause all that chaos, we can sure as hell do something productive in preventing any further cuts.

[hobbaja]

The chancellor raised some very important issues, we as students should stop being oblivious about the fact that this budget crisis is more of a social issue, this is something that the Californians voted for. So stop blaming the university directors, and the states men. Those politicians at Sacramento are there to lie. That's their job to confuse people and misinform them. The problem is the public that buys into their nonsense, so educate yourselves and the public rather than being emotional.