Category Archives: Academic Life

One UC Chancellor vs Another

By dniemeier | Published: December 22, 2009

It’s interesting to contrast the way in which UC Berkeley (and the UC system) has handled Chancellor Birgeneau’s student protests (see a summary here) and the way in which the system (and then-President Dynes) handled similar incidents against then Chancellor Denton (see a summary here).

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We should have…

By dniemeier | Published: December 5, 2009

David Orr recently completed his last Conservation in Context column in Conservation Biology. I don’t know him and I’m not a conservationist biologist, but through the years I have frequently found myself reading his column. His last, and perhaps most poignant of those I’ve read, was just published. I quote a short section here, “Furthermore, I [...]