@preppedparent No, but I live in SoCal near UCLA. I went to a small LAC.
Interesting times at Cal, especially with the Free Speech event happening soon. Hope it all goes smooth.
There were literally hundreds of police officers on campus last week to prevent any violence from happening over a speech by conservative Ben Shapiro. I walked near the plaza at about 8 or 9 and there was a good sized crowd on Bancroft protesting. It was peaceful but there was a lot of anger from the students protesting, especially toward the administration for allowing the speech. Students could not enter the area surrounding Zellerbach hall unless they had I.D., tickets for the event, and went through a metal detector. The police put up concrete blockades around 5 or 6 buildings to form a perimeter and had officers form defensive lines dressed in riot gear. It was scary but luckily the police presence deterred any violence. I put on Fox news afterwards out of curiosity (because they love these stories) and they were showing video clips of hundreds of cops in riot gear - it looked like a police state. The news always exaggerates these things and I’m sure it painted the school in a bad light.
Berkeley now ranks behind UCLA in the Times Higher Education and Wall Street Journal. They are still tied in U.S. News. I wonder what affect this will have on the number of applications and yields.
Even in the global rankings that measure research output we are falling, and this where we usually perform well. For instance, we were ranked #5 in ARWU this year (our lowest ever). This means we lost our distinction as #1 public university in the world to Cambridge. I’m ticked…
Our trend overall for Times Higher Ed dropped from 92 to 84.
Rankings from 2011 to 2018 is a nasty trend. 8->10->9->8->8->13->10->18
Even in the global rankings that measure research output we are falling, and those are the rankings where we perform the best. For instance, we were ranked #5 in ARWU this year (our lowest ever). This means we lost our distinction as #1 public university in the world to Cambridge. I’m ticked…
Our trend overall for Times Higher Ed dropped from 92 to 84. ■■■.
Rankings from 2011 to 2018 is a nasty trend. 8->10->9->8->8->13->10->18
Anybody else notice the constant negative news regarding Berkeley that Fox news reports?? I don’t watch that news channel, but it came to my attention recently that every month or so they run a negative story about Cal as part of some kind of smear campaign.