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University of California, Berkeley (view source)
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The '''University of California, Berkeley''' (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, on the hills above the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay. Berkeley was established in 1868 through the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, and Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system. UC Berkeley is the head campus of the [[University of California]] system.
The '''University of California, Berkeley''' (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, on the hills above the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay. Berkeley was established in 1868 through the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, and Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system. UC Berkeley is the head campus of the [[University of California]] system. This UC educational system has been criticized as liberally biased and as such resembling to ''"a sanctuary for a narrow ideological segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas"'' that does not help students learn ''how'' to think, but rather teaches them ''what'' to think.<ref>{{cite web |title= Leftist California Professors "Corrupt" Higher Education |author=Larry Elder |publisher=TownHall Magazine |date=April 12, 2012 |url=http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2012/04/12/leftist_california_professors_corrupt_higher_education/page/full |accessdate=November 9, 2014}}</ref>
Berkeley has 1,580 fulltime and 597 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 350 degree programs. The student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1.<ref name=facts>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeley.edu/about/fact.shtml|title=Facts at a glance|accessdate=March 21, 2014}}</ref>
Berkeley has 1,580 fulltime and 597 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 350 degree programs. The student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1.<ref name=facts>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeley.edu/about/fact.shtml|title=Facts at a glance|accessdate=March 21, 2014}}</ref>
== Liberal bias ==
== Liberal bias ==
While it may have been balanced in its courses, today Berkeley is best known for its professors' well-known leftist biases. The university, like the city it is in, is a bastion for liberalism, socialism, and even atheism. It is well known that UC Berkeley uses its influence to liberalize the other University of California campuses as well as other public, educational institutions around the country. Berkeley is a prime example of the detrimental, liberal influence public universities place on the upcoming American generations.
While it may have been balanced in its courses, today Berkeley is best known for its professors' well-known leftist biases. The university, like the city it is in, is a bastion for liberalism, socialism, and even atheism. It is well known that UC Berkeley uses its influence to liberalize the other University of California campuses as well as other public, educational institutions around the country. Berkeley is a prime example of the detrimental, liberal influence public universities place on the upcoming American generations.
In his address to students at Masaryk University in Brno, Ex-president of [[Czech Republic]] [[Václav Klaus]] declared that back in 80s, just before the collapse of communist rule in Soviet Block, the partisans of Marxism and communist ideas where more likely to be found at UC Berkeley rather than among the population of Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite web |title=Je důvod slavit našich 10 let v EU? (Is there a reason to celebrate 10 years in EU?) |author=Václav Klaus |publisher=vsfstv |page=ca24min:40sec |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmrSIwFS5Y8 |quote=Back in the 80s nobody [in Soviet Block] believed the doctrines of Marxism and communism and nobody took them seriously. I told American astrophysicist who visited our country that time that these ideas are more likely to find their partisans at the UC Berkeley rather than here. However, these ideas were replaced by ideologies that only appear to be any better and that are possibly even more aggressive: Multiculturalism, transnacionalism, feminism, genderism, homosexualism, …|acceddate=November 9, 2014 |language=Czech}}</ref>
The critic David Berlinski in his essay “Academic Extinction” ridicules way of the thinking of scientific establishment at the UC Berkeley. Despite officially they purport the idea that:
<blockquote>''"Everyone on the Berkeley campus should be exposed to the arguments supporting real science and to the fallacies of views based on guesswork and unfounded hypotheses."''</blockquote>
Berlinski points out that in real life they do exactly opposite and suppress the freedom of scientific research if it opposes or deviates from what is considered as the established liberally-based beliefs and convictions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Academic Extinction:
More and More, Evolutionary Theory is Becoming Nothing More than Darwinian Mantra
|author=David Berlinski |publisher=originally in The Daily Californian |date=April 1, 2005 |url= http://www.discovery.org/a/2492 |accessdate=November 9, 2014}}</ref>
The most likely reason Berkeley is rated so highly among universities is the inevitable mutual liberal bias between educational ranking systems and the university itself.
The most likely reason Berkeley is rated so highly among universities is the inevitable mutual liberal bias between educational ranking systems and the university itself.