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In response to
"Because Berkeley is the flagship of the U of California system."
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Will Hunting
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Good answer, thanks for the info, but that link led me down a deep well or rage.
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I had no idea UC Berkeley was 1st. But I'm having trouble with this whole "Flagship University" concept.
Firstly, as defined in the following link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship#Education
"The College Board, for example, defines flagship universities as the best-known institutions in the state, noting that they were generally the first to be established and are frequently the largest and most selective, as well as the most research-intensive public universities.[2] These schools are often land-grant, sea-grant, or space-grant research universities."
That basically means Morrill Act schools (i.e. "(blank) State University" or "(blank) A&M", etc. NOT the "university system" schools that came into existence in the post-war era (i.e. "university of (blank)").
That's basic factual information. The Morrill Act provided for land grant universities.
What truly irks me is the inclusion of the University of Oregon as the state's flagship university. It meets none of the criteria laid out. It is not any-grant, it is not the largest, it does not receive the most research dollars.
Furthermore, the article quotes former UofO President Robert M. Berdahl as to his view of what a flagship university is. In that same article, he mentions "I remember vividly being chastised by the Chancellor of the System of Higher Education in Oregon when, as Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, I referred in testimony in the legislature to the University of Oregon as the 'flagship' campus." Why was he chastised? Because UofO is NOT the state's flagship university.
Mop
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