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UC Berkeley Gets $113M to Corral Profs

Gift will slow loss of good teachers to richer, private schools

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 10, 2007 8:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – UC Berkeley will announce a $113 million gift today, which the school will use to create 100 new endowed chairs—hopefully slowing the emigration of professors to the juicier paychecks offered by private universities. The gift is unusual in that it will go straight to...   Read full story »

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