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Recent Campaign News
- Bravo for Yale and Harvard, but what about the rest?
USA Today publishes an Op-Ed written by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau comparing financial aid offerings at private and public universities and calling for "public-private partnerships to create endowments that will ensure access for all students, regardless of family income, to attend public universities."
(23 January 2008) - Craigslist to establish first endowed faculty chair in new media
UC Berkeley announced plans to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media with a donation of $1.6 million from craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the world.
(17 January 2008) - $113 million gift, UC Berkeley's largest ever, to support 100 endowed faculty chairs
This gift represents a turning point in the financing of public higher education, providing endowment support that will help to close the funding gap between the nation's preeminent public university and its elite private peers, according to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.
For more information, visit The Hewlett Challenge
(10 September 2007)
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