Tomorrow’s New York Times has an op-ed by Bob Herbert on the funding crisis at U.C. Berkeley. He makes the important points about the uniqueness of Berkeley in giving top-quality education (and a good chance to move on to grad school) to students of very diverse backgrounds, serving working class and middle-class students like no other top university. He also makes the following, very important, point
[The changes caused by the budget crisis] would most likely hurt students from middle-class families more than poorer ones. Those kids are caught between the less well-off, who are helped by a variety of financial aid programs, and the wealthy students, whose families have no problem paying for a first-class college education.
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October 4, 2009 at 6:12 am
Terence Tao
Much of what is said about UC Berkeley applies to UCLA also, of course.
There is now a website devoted to the impact of current and potential cuts to UCLA at
http://savingucla.ning.com/
presumably the Berkeley faculty are organising something similar.
October 10, 2009 at 8:04 am
aravind
Hi Luca,
Off-topic, but there was a discussion of the Erdos-Selberg issue some time ago in your blog: here is a recent article on it by Graham and Spencer, with a postscript by Pomerance.