 While semester over on May 31st, Robert Bershino will go from UC Berkeley Chancellor to Campus Physics Professor. After nine years at the helm of one of the most prestigious public universities in the world, Bershino is stepping down. His tenure sought three Nobel Prizes and the dream of financial aid for undocumented students. But it also saw violent protests and massive state budget cuts. In tonight's class action, Bershino on his legacy and the lineage that has served as his guiding force. These are actually all three pieces or pieces of matey art. Robert Bershino is getting ready to move his collection of many art 300 yards from the big office to his more austere digs in the physics building. And this is by an artist by the name of Raylux. The French-Canadian First Nation heritage that adorns his walls, the link to a destiny changed by a life of learning. I'm the first person in my family to finish high school, not college, but no one ever asked why. But it is that why, and his native culture of work over college, that is at the very heart of what's been Bershino's master plan for Berkeley. What do you think has been your biggest impact here? If you were to say, this is the hallmark of my tenure, it is? It is access and excellence. We've managed to show that you can be a world-class university and be a university where, for example, 37% of our students are in federal Pell grants, which means that their family income is under $45,000 a year. A physicist by training who specialized in the area of complex systems, Bershino admits that he encountered his most daunting problem when state funding went from $600 million, or 28% of the budget when he took office, to its current $250 million. And this has been a time period where leadership has really mattered. Here we lose a huge fraction of our budget from the state, and we're still among the top-tier universities in the world. His equation for survival? A mixture of aggressive fundraising, tuition hikes, and out-of-state student dollars. A move that critics say has privatized a public school system. Our actual financial model at a place like Berkeley is looking more and more like that of a private university, but there's a profound difference. And we still spend our money, as we should, like a public university. And that is exactly what the 69-year-old is most proud of. First of its kind, tuition breaks he created for middle-class families, and dollars for so-called dreamer kids. Undocumented California graduates who make the grade, but can't get the aid. They've gotten into one of the most competitive universities in the United States and earned their position here. There was no favor done for this person, right? And then they're not able to attend because of a mistake their parents made, and this just isn't right. Policies for Californians made possible by out-of-state students. A worldly addition that he says also happens to help pay the bills. We are the victims of these cuts. But for all the hardships and highly publicized missteps during Occupy protests on campus and in spite of the outrage over spiking executive salaries and rising tuition, Bershanot reflects on his time at Cal with pride and looks forward to his career as a regular faculty member with excitement. So when you walk around campus after this in June and you're walking around and you see the students, and some students will see you pass by them and they'll say, hey, oh my god, there's Chancellor Bershanot. He really, what do you want them to remember you? He really what? He cared about me. That's what I want them to remember.