University of California, Berkeley
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| University of California - Berkeley | |
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| Type: | Public |
| City: | Berkeley, California |
| Sports: | baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, curling, field hockey, gold, gymnastics, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, swimming, softball, track and field, volleyball, water polo, tennis |
| Colors: | Yale Blue and Golden Yellow |
| Mascot: | Golden Bears |
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| Website: | http://www.berkeley.edu/ |
The University of California at Berkeley was founded in 1868 and is located in Berkeley, California. UC Berkeley is the head campus of the University of California system, and is widely regarded as one of the top universities in the world. It is known as California or Cal in the sports sections of newspapers.
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History
The roots of the University of California go back to the gold rush days of 1849, when the drafters of the State Constitution, a group of vigorous and farsighted people, required the legislature to "encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement" of the people of California. These early planners dreamed of a university which eventually, "if properly organized and conducted, would contribute even more than California's gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations."
In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, leading to the development of the first cyclotron by Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human polio virus, and the discovery of a string of elements heavier than uranium. Twenty members of the Berkeley faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with physical sciences. In 1966 Berkeley was recognized by the American Council on Education as "the best balanced distinguished university in the country." [1] In the 1960's UCB was the epicenter of the California counter culture movement. Ronald Reagan rightly admonished the schools lack of morals and proper conduct in a 1966 speech when he was campaigning for governor of California.[1] Today the school is currently the highest ranked public university in the country, but the fact that despite it's massive influx of state government money it consistently is outperformed by private schools like it's rival Stanford is considered by many education experts to be definitive proof of the supremacy of private education. While it may have been balanced in its courses, today Berkeley is best known for its professors' well known leftist biases.
Colleges
UC Berkeley's fourteen colleges.
- College of Letters & Science
- Haas School of Business
- College of Chemistry
- Graduate School of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Environmental Design
- School of Information
- Graduate School of Journalism
- Law School (Boalt Hall)
- College of Natural Resources
- School of Optometry
- School of Public Health
- The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
- School of Social Welfare
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