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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a710
- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Subject: Re: Funding position in Californian universities
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:52:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <17271@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Colin Bell of Cambridge University writes:
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- A friend of mine is intending to do a PhD in the USA, possibly at either
- Berkeley or Stanford, getting funding from the university in question if
- possible. He's worried about what effects the current financial crisis
- in California will have on these two universities and his funding. If
- there's someone out there who knows what the situation's like, could
- they e-mail me with pertinent information? I will of course pass it onto
- anyone who asks me for it.
-
- The issue deserves more than individual discussion, and this newsgroup is as
- good a place as any.
-
- I don't have details on Berkeley or Stanford, but a friend of mine at UC
- Riverside last summer earned a promotion and a 5% pay cut simultaneously--and
- this is a renowned scholar with several books to his credit.
-
- Last week's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education displayed a map of the
- US showing relative funding levels of post-secondary in the various states;
- California's funding has dropped 12% in the last 2 years. This does not bode
- well for one of the biggest and best college and university systems in the
- world. What it bodes for individual graduate students I don't know; much may
- depend on the political fashionability of the discipline and the research
- field, or even the financial creativity of particular scholars.
-
- Perhaps the most striking aspect of the North American crisis in
- post-secondary education is that the professariat--by definition among the
- best and brightest minds we have--hasn't come up with any useful solutions.
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- Crawford Kilian Communications Department Capilano College
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