New President Announced

JBStillFlying
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 06:12:22 +0000

Being anywhere in the T10 for law is excellent and while I don’t know Haas very well, my guess is that their grads have no trouble finding top employment. UChicago had a department of Ed but shut it down in the '80’s due to problems with quality.

Why is UCB a superior research institution? Well, a lot of this is due to long-standing stuff. The state set up their public university system very well in order to concentrate top faculty and top students in one tier. Another reason is that CA historically was a growth state - people went and never left. The third reason is that it’s big with lots of faculty! UChicago really can’t do much about any of that. Chicago isn’t as pleasant to live in as the Bay Area, and it can’t hire the same number of faculty as UCB. However, Alivisatos identified UChicago as the one school for which he’d leave Berkeley. Presumably, he thinks that UChicago has something about it that Cal Berkeley doesn’t have. That needs to be his focus: turning the place into such an exciting institution of inquiry and discovery that top faculty from all over the place (including the financially troubled UC system) are willing to flock to Chicago and make their home there.