A state Senate hearing on the University of California’s power structure was temporarily sidetracked yesterday by a racially charged shouting match between a senator and the UC regent who led the campaign to ban affirmative action at the university. Senator Diane Watson, D-Los Angeles, suggested that Ward Connerly, one of two black regents, was a puppet appointed by Governor Wilson because of his race. Watson, also an African American, said Connerly was confirmed by the Senate after she urged her colleagues to support him for the sake of diversity. Connerly retorted by calling Watson a "lightweight" who had no influence over his selection to the board — and a "bigot." After the meeting, he said Watson once told a reporter that Connerly wants to be white, noting that his wife is white.

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by Pamela Burdman, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: February 21st, 1996, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Judged on faculty quality, UC Berkeley is the best overall graduate institution in the nation and three other California universities rank among the top schools, according to a long-awaited study released Tuesday by the National Research Council. Harvard, Yale and other venerable Eastern schools held their own as usual, but Berkeley, Stanford and UC San Diego placed first, second and 10th among institutions with the highest number of doctoral programs ranked in the top 10 in their field… The 740-page study, which cost $1.2 million and took four years to complete, only solidified UC Berkeley’s already sterling reputation. With 35 of its 36 graduate programs rated among the top 10 in their fields for scholarly quality, that campus was by far the country’s best-rated graduate institution across the board.

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by Amy Wallace, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: September 13th, 1995, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

What happens when the vast generation of war babies (now 15-19 years old) really hits the public campuses? Nobody has spent more hours seeking precise answers than Clark Kerr, president of the mammoth, seven-campus* University of California (47,895 students), the largest college complex in the U.S. Few states are growing faster than California: whether by birth or by migration, the population increases by one a minute. Each year California’s growth matches the size of San Diego. Each day it needs one new school. Already it has the nation’s biggest public school system (3,300,000). Already it has the nation’s highest number of Collegians (234,000 fulltime), and 80% of them are on public campuses. Freeze & Pry. Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space.

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by the staff, Time Magazine.

Posted: October 17th, 1960, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.