Allegations of police brutality during a protest at Berkeley last week and faculty concerns about athletics spending are the latest PR headaches for Robert J. Birgeneau, the campus’s chancellor. As for the system’s president, Mark Yudof has been busy defending a 32 percent tuition hike, while suffering additional criticism for joking about his compensation in a New York Times interview. Despite these challenges, Birgeneau and system officials believe they can galvanize support from a student protest movement that often maligns them, and instead channel the students’ energy into a productive lobbying campaign for more state resources.

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by Jack Stripling, Inside Higher Ed.

Posted: November 25th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.