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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>
Berkeley has 1,580 fulltime 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 ==
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 1960's 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]].
==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/>
