Re: Cal Football: Blue Out (Chancellor Robert Birgeneau)

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Cal’s Senior Management Failures. The signs of University of California 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. Source Forbes. Chancellor Birgeneau are stonewalling the Operational Excellence (OE) initiative from probing deeper to untangle the senior managemt mess.

[moravecglobal]

UC Berkeley’s recent elimination of popular sports programs highlighted endemic problems in the university’s management. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s eight-year fiscal track record is dismal indeed. He would like to blame the politicians in Sacramento, since they stopped giving him every dollar he has asked for, and the state legislators do share some responsibility for the financial crisis. But not in the sense he means.