New President Announced

JBStillFlying
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:27:29 +0000

There is a state stipend, similar to how all public institutions are supported by their respective states, and OOS tuition is pretty steep . . . but it’s a good question. I’ve been wondering this myself, when the UC system has to deal with salary freezes and other problems over the years, how they retain top faculty. @grreat, I’ll ask my contacts in academia who can probably only speak for their own departments but might still be able to give some insight. Another issue is that as a public institution they simply can’t pay their grad students what HYPS are paying. So how do they do it? One answer has to be that there exists a deeper well of intellectual and other resources to attract and retain top faculty and grad students. Size might matter too; maybe a larger size of any department means more chances to hire and promote talented faculty. It will certainly help attract a variety of top grad students. But there are plenty of flagships in other states, as well as a good share of larger privates, that don’t have the quality of faculty that Cal Berkeley has. So it’s a very interesting question, IMO.