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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. 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>  

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 ''"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 full-time 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 full-time 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>

== History ==

== 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."

The roots of the University of California go back to the gold rush days, 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." [http://www.berkeley.edu/about/history/]

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." [http://www.berkeley.edu/about/history/]

In the 1960s UCB was the epicenter of the California counter culture]movement. [[Ronald Reagan]] admonished the schools lack of morals and proper conduct in a 1966 speech when he was campaigning for governor of [[California]].<ref>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml</ref> Today the school is currently the highest ranked public university in the country, but the fact that despite its massive influx of state [[government]] money it consistently is outperformed by private schools like its rival [[Stanford]] is considered by many education experts to be definitive proof of the supremacy of [[private education]].

In the 1960s UCB was the epicenter of the California counter culture]movement. [[Ronald Reagan]] admonished the schools lack of morality and proper conduct in a 1966 speech when he was campaigning for governor of [[California]].<ref>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml</ref> Today the school is currently the highest ranked public university in the country, but the fact that despite its massive influx of state [[government]] money it consistently is outperformed by private schools like its rival [[Stanford]] is considered by many education experts to be definitive proof of the supremacy of [[private education]].

==Finances==

==Finances==

== 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 anarchism<ref>{{cite web |title=Mayhem in Berkeley: Trump Supporters. Counter-Protesters Clash During Rally

|author=Samuel Chi |publisher=Breitbart News |date=April 15, 2017 |url=www.breitbart.com/california/2017/04/15/mayhem-in-berkeley-trump-supporters-counter-protesters-clash-during-rally/|accessdate=April 30, 2017}}</ref>. 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>  

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:  

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: