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At Berkeley
2013 · Film · documentary · 244 min
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United States.
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“At this point, the EECS department is running an annual deficit of nearly $5 million”
“department must provide more than 7,000 student-seats per year in the upper division courses”
That’s crazy. Also amusing how the author constantly talks about scaling up as if the department is a startup.
As an international graduate student, I never considered Berkeley to be an attractive place to study a PhD: insane housing prices, expensive fees and insurance, huge bureaucracy, and all the while even the most popular departments are underfunded or barely-funded so low stipends.
I recommend watching the documentary “At Berkeley”.
At Berkeley they are doing exactly that. If you've ever seen the movie "At Berkeley" there's a scene where the university president discusses that very issue, the University of California system cannot hope to match the salaries offered by the private universities. It would be instructive to go over the list of who stays and who decamps to Stanford.