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-{{University
-|image=Berkeley.jpg
-|name=University of California - Berkeley
-|text=gold
-|background=navy;
-|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
-|degrees=Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral<ref>{{cite web|work=College Board|language=English|accessdate=May 28, 2010|title=College Search - University of California: Berkeley - Cal - At a Glance|url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=988}}</ref>
-|mascot=Golden Bears
-|website=http://www.berkeley.edu/
-}}
-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>
-== 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." [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 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==
-After the state legislature in 2011 slashed $650 million from the University of California system's previously $3-billion budget, tuition at UC schools rose 17% for in-state students and 5% for nonresident ones, prompting student protests and sit-ins on the Berkeley campus. With California already leading the nation in tuition increases, the UC system has said that annual tuition spikes could range from 8% to 16% over the next four years.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304432704577350214257041598|title=Cal's Football-Stadium Gamble |work=Wall Street Journal|date=April 20, 2012|accessdate=March 21, 2014}}</ref> The Berkeley campus budget for 2012-13 was $2.16 billion.<ref name=facts/>
-Berkeley controversially borrowed $445 million to fund a $321 million renovation its seismically unsafe football stadium and construction of a new $153 million student athletic center,<ref name=wsj/><ref name=debt>{{cite news|title=Cal scrambling to cover stadium bill|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesports/article/Cal-scrambling-to-cover-stadium-bill-4604221.php?t=7903d5abac47b02379|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=June 16, 2013|accessdate=March 22, 2014}}</ref> both of which opened in 2012. Fundraising for the project fell far short of expectations.<ref name=wsj/>
-In 2014, Moody's downgraded Berkeley's bond rating from from Aa1 to Aa2.<ref name=forbes>{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/2014/03/19/the-hidden-college-problem-when-universities-like-students-take-on-debt/|title=The Hidden College Problem: When Universities, Not Just Students, Take On Debt|first=Josh|last=Freedman|work=Forbes|date=March 19, 2014|accessdate=March 21, 2014}}</ref>  However, Berkeley was able to save $1 billion in borrowing costs by refinancing its debt.<ref name=forbes/>
-== 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 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=http://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>
-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.
-== Colleges ==
-UC Berkeley's fourteen colleges.
-*College of Letters & Science
-*[http://haas.berkeley.edu/ Haas School of Business]
-*College of Chemistry
-*Graduate School of Education
-*[http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/ College of Engineering]
-*College of Environmental Design
-*School of Information
-*Graduate School of Journalism
-*[http://www.law.berkeley.edu/ Law School (Boalt Hall)]
-*College of Natural Resources
-*School of Optometry
-*School of Public Health
-*[http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/ The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy]
-*School of Social Welfare
-==See also==
-* [[California]]
-* [[San Francisco Bay Area]]
-* [[San Francisco]]: [[San Francisco values]] and the [[Homosexual agenda]]
-* [[Berkeley]] and [[Oakland]]
-* University of California, Berkeley, [[Stanford University]] and [[University of California, Davis‎]]
-* [[Silicon Valley]]: [[San Jose]], [[Santa Clara]], [[Santa Cruz]]
-* [[Gun control]]—UC Berkeley and the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] as a whole (especially [[Berkeley]]), along with [[Los Angeles]], [[Washington D.C.]], [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]], is known to be one of the 5 top [[American]] [[urban]] regions with the most [[left-wing]] [[Second Amendment|Anti-Second Amendment]] laws, yet high [[crime]] rates. See "[[Vote with your feet]].'
-== External links ==
-*[http://www.berkeley.edu/ Official Website]
-==References==
-{{reflist|2}}
-{{Nb_US_universities|California}}
-[[Category:California Universities]]
-[[Category:Liberal Organizations]]
-[[Category:San Francisco Bay Area]]
-[[Category:Silicon Valley]]
-[[Category:Northern California]]
-[[Category:Urban History]]
-[[Category:Liberalism]]
-[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]

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