As the UC sails into uncharted financial waters, many fear that members of the university’s world-class faculty will jump ship for the fatter paychecks waiting at private institutions. But this fear, stemming from a long pattern of professors being recruited away from the UC, is pushing the university down the wrong path in its approach to retaining faculty, according to UC faculty members who contend that administrators are blinded with dollar signs and ignore – and allow to degrade – the aspects of the university that initially attracted those professors to the institution… As all levels of the UC administration play the bidding game of matching outside offers to keep stars of the academic world in UC classrooms, the overall quality of the university is degrading, said UC Berkeley Professor of political science and Berkeley Faculty Association co-chair Wendy Brown. "There’s no reason to stay at a crummy institution and teach your heart out," she said.

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo, The Daily Californian.

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