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University of California at Berkeley
- Address: 110 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-5800, U.S.A.
- Phone: 510-642-6000
- Website: [1]
- Overview
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies 6,651 acres (2,692 ha) with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres (80.9 ha).[1]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Berkeley 3rd internationally. Newsweek and Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranked Berkeley 5th in the World. UC Berkeley ranks 1st among public universities and ranks 21st overall in the USNWR "National University" Ranking. It ranked 2nd for undergraduate engineering and 3rd for its undergraduate business program.[1]
Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project which he personally headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II. Since that time, the university has managed or co-managed the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as its later rival, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.[1]
Cal student-athletes compete intercollegiately as the California Golden Bears. A member of both the Pacific-10 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the NCAA, Cal students have won national titles in many sports, including football, men's basketball, baseball, softball, water polo, rugby, and crew. In addition, they have won over 100 Olympic medals. The official colors of the university and its athletic teams are Yale Blue and California Gold.[1]
History & Memorable Moments
- Students at UC Berkeley are typically regarded to be and much more liberal compared to the surrounding town of Berkeley, and less politically active than their predecessors. In a poll performed in 2005, 51% of Berkeley freshmen regarded themselves liberal, 3-7% considered themselves moderate, and 12% identified as conservative. 43.8% have no religious preference compared to a national average of 17.6%. In 1982, 20.8% identified as conservative, 32.9% defined as as liberals, and 46.4% identified as moderate. The Berkeley College Republicans is the largest organization on campus although Republicans are in the minority. Democrats outnumber Republicans on the faculty by way of a ratio of nine to one, leading to some conservative student criticism of the faculty for teaching with a bias.
- Although considered a liberal institution numerous animal and human rights, by some groups have protested the the investigation performed at Berkeley. Hearst Museum of Anthropology's repatriation unit demonstrates unwillingness to comply with all the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, while Berkeley officials say the museum's re-organization complies with all the law and certainly will involve all museum personnel in the repatriation process. Animal-rights activists took to committing numerous acts of vandalism and intimidation against faculty members whose research involves the use of animals. Additionally, the university's response into a group of tree sitters protesting the building of a new athletic center has galvanized some members of the district, for example, city council, against the university. Plans to renovate Memorial Stadium in an in a fashion that that could eliminate a view of the area in the surrounding hills also have encountered opposition from alumni and others who have regularly watched Cal soccer games for free.
- As of 2006, the 3 2,347-pupil university needed more capital expense just to maintain current infrastructure than any other campus in the UC system, but as its enrollment is at ability, it frequently receives less state cash for improvement projects than other, growing campuses in the system. As state funding for higher schooling declines, Berkeley has progressively turned to personal resources to maintain preliminary research applications.
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