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<p>Well, that’s not the most fair way to look at it. After all, competitors aren’t raiding just any Berkeley profs. They are raiding the very best of the Berkeley profs. </p>
<p>Let’s take one example. Take Arup Chakraborty. He wasn’t just any Berkeley’s ChemE professor. He was a star. He was Department Chair of ChemE, was elected to the NAE, AND he won the department Teaching Award. Hence, he was a rare case of a guy who was stellar both from a research standpoint and also from a teaching standpoint. Yet he was lured to MIT.</p>
<p>Hence, while the absolute losses are not large, what matters is that the quality of the losses is significant. Cal (like any other university) has plenty of (relatively) mediocre profs, many of whom won’t even win tenure. They are not the object of concern. What matters is what happens to Berkeley’s very best profs.</p>