The University of California, Berkeley is a public university that is part of the University of California system.
The benefits given to California are probably the cheaper tuition for residents of this state to attend the school.
After all, the funds for public universities mainly come from state government financial appropriations.
But as a well-known public research university, it is certainly impossible to operate with the state finance funding.
With public attributes, you cannot charge high tuition fees like private universities, so you need to have diversified inputs if you want to develop.
Among them, research funds are the most important input. At least the well-known professors in the school can earn money from it, so that they can stay in the school wholeheartedly.
Not to mention that in recent times, the overall economy of the United States has been in a state of recession, especially the one in the white house is already desperately reducing fiscal spending.
This fiscal pressure has also dropped to the state level, with support from fiscal revenue continuing to decline.
There is no way to complain, after all, it is not just California, but all states are like this.
There is something special about it when you come to California.
For example, the University of California has issued many bonds, which are extremely high debts for school development. These bonds are used to build medical centers and high-end communities.
This is mainly because university land has tax-free preferential policies here.
As long as it is a business conducted on campus, whether it is a business or a private company's research income or intellectual property income will be tax-reduced.
So the school naturally has great motivation to make a fuss on the land on campus.
For example, schools will combine classrooms and laboratories with various commercial, stadiums, high-end residential areas and medical centers.
Therefore, every time a new laboratory is built, a prosperous business will become a surrounding area. Then the school can rely on medical centers and commercial operations to obtain development funds.
This approach sounds good, and it is indeed the case in the financial report. For example, the annual income of the University of California Medical Center can even exceed the total state government grants and donations.
Moreover, the University of California system belongs to public universities, and no one seems to be able to make a profit from it, which is simply perfect.
But the only regret is that the school itself has no money, so it depends on issuing bonds, that is, borrowing.
Moreover, these bonds are mortgaged using school tuition, real estate assets and profits, campus catering, stadiums and other high-quality assets. For those who buy these bonds, it is almost a sure profit and no loss.
Of course, those who can buy such high-quality bonds in large quantities are definitely not ordinary people. As for who they are, that is a secret.
Therefore, the tuition fees of the University of California system have been rising, and it is difficult for ordinary faculty and staff to increase their wages, and it is an indisputable fact that various living costs have increased due to high debt.
In order to make up for the fiscal gap, the University of California system is more inclined to recruit students from other states and abroad. After all, the tuition fees for out-of-state students are four to five times that of students in this state.
Specifically for Berkeley, it is actually similar. The school is a well-known school, but it owes a lot of money. Therefore, the school not only needs to develop, but also needs more income to repay interest and principal.
Cooperating with major technology companies is undoubtedly one of the fastest ways to make money for a well-known research university like Berkeley.
Especially in cooperation with large technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc., to build various laboratories, which can further stimulate the vigorous development of various industries on campus.
As a result, someone suddenly wants to interfere with it and prevent these large technology companies from cooperating with them?
What's even more terrifying is that this person has really bargaining chips that affect the decisions of these large technology companies, and even the bargaining chips that can affect the chaebols behind those technology companies...
Can the big guys on the board of directors not be anxious? This is not just digging the roots of the school, it is cutting off the financial path of countless people!
If a school cannot develop sustainably, how can it continue to issue bonds? Especially if the professors who can get the project leave, how can they continue to maintain high tuition fees?
What's even more terrifying is that if students who develop to Berkeley are no longer favored, it is a problem whether they can find enough students in the future.
This also means that the value of on-campus entertainment commercial complexes built by schools that spend a lot of money will continue to decline. If people are lost, both rents and medical centers will fall sharply.
In this case, how should those bonds that have been sold repay the principal and interest? Just rely on that little state funding? Don’t joke, who can value that little money? It’s not enough to pay wages.
This is really the food and clothing department of millions of canal workers! You can imagine how anxious the members of the board of directors were at this time, and they were even more anxious than the principal!
In this case, an emergency meeting of the Berkeley board of directors was held just 1:00 p.m.
Except for two people who were unable to attend the venue abroad, everyone was there.
Even the two abroad actively participated in the meeting through video, and delayed their rest time regardless of the time difference.
After all, every board member does not represent themselves, but also represents the interests and parties behind them.
What if someone needs to make sacrifices when encountering such a big thing? If you don’t attend the meeting, the sacrifice will inevitably be your own interests. Who can I ask for advice?
It is no exaggeration to say that the board of directors of the University of California system has never been as efficient as it is today.
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"Everyone has arrived, so the meeting will begin now. I believe everyone has already understood the specific situation. Dr. Qiao Yu from China seems to have some misunderstandings about our University of California, Berkeley, although I don't know how this misunderstanding arises.
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But I personally don’t think this is important. The next focus we need to discuss is how to resolve this crisis. Before the meeting began, I had contacted three large companies with relevant R&D cooperation contracts with Berkeley.
Including Google, Intel and IBM, I can only tell you that the feedback is not optimistic. If we cannot solve this problem as soon as possible, they will really take action, even if they feel sorry for this decision!
So everyone, now is not a time to complain meaninglessly. We need to work together to overcome this crisis. I believe everyone knows what it means to withdraw investments from these large companies at the same time!
So I suggest that everyone’s speeches should be targeted - how do we survive this crisis! So who should speak first now?"
The speaker was John Perez, the current chairman of the board of directors of the University of California System.
There is no doubt that this is a big shot, who has served as the speaker of the state House of Representatives.
Prior to becoming the chairman of the board, he had served on the UC Board of Directors and served on several committees of the board.
After becoming the chairman of the board of directors, he made many adjustments to the University of California system and admissions policies.
So it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the one who knows the current internal and financial situation of the University of California system best.
The expression of the chairman of the board shows that he is in a terrible mood at this moment!
There is no way, when John Perez found out that he could not even make these damn big companies surrender with his former Speaker of the House, he knew that this was in trouble.
After all, he represents the interests of the California government!
The upper class has its own set of operating rules. It does not involve a deeper chain of interests, and the senior executives of those technology companies will never treat him with the attitude that makes him feel humiliated.
At this time, John Perez's eyes naturally fell on Lucas Eisen.
Yes, Frank's grandfather Lucas Eisen is also one of the board of directors of this year's University of California System.
He was originally a Californian. He graduated from Berkeley and naturally represented high-end scholars from the California department.
This is also the reason why he was able to easily get Frank to be a professor at Berkeley.
As for the reason why John Perez pays attention to Lucas at this time, it is also very simple.
From his perspective, Berkeley is just a collective concept, and the school itself naturally cannot have any unsolvable conflicts with Qiao Yu.
So the biggest possibility is that the school’s mathematics professors have some dirty things with Qiao Yu, which will cause the school to be implicated.
Lucas Eisen is one of the world's leading maths, after all, he is a big shot who once won the Fields Medal.
If you figure out who Qiao Yu had a conflict with, this matter would be easy to solve. After all, no one at the University of California is indispensable.
Even if Lucas Eisen offended Qiao Yu, he would immediately let the math master leave.
The most annoying thing is that he asked many people for information, but the answer he got was that Qiao Yu didn't explain why he suddenly attacked Berkeley, let alone who it was because of.
This is what makes John Perez the most angry, and even hates it so much that he grits his teeth.
Qiao Yu is also a dignified Fields Medal winner, so how could he act so frivolously? He couldn't understand it at all.
Whoever offended you, can't I just say it directly? He is even willing to personally pull out the man and vent his anger for Qiao Yu. He insists on playing the Riddle Man's post, isn't it childish?
But thinking of the Fields Medal winner who gave him a split headache is only seventeen years old this year...
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Forget it! He is also a child, and he can't reason with adolescent boys! I can only say that one of the people in the mathematics community is crazy about calculations!
Yes, even when he was not very happy to see Lucas Eisen at this moment.
Lucas Eisen noticed John Perez's gaze, and he could even clearly guess why the Chairman was the first to notice him.
But his mood is still sunny at this moment.
In the past two hours, he also looked for everyone in the mathematics circle with Qiao Yu.
Peter Schultz, Pierre Dellini, Lott Dugan, Tao Xuanzhi, Dennis Gates...
No one knows why Qiao Yu suddenly went crazy.
He also wanted to have someone call Qiao Yu to ask, but considering the jet lag, these people were only willing to send an email even for his sake.
He even called Yuan Zhengxin...
Unfortunately, the answer I got was not clear, and I just said that I would help me ask. But at least I had to wait until the evening if I had the answer.
As we all know, mathematicians will not speak without understanding anything, as if they are going to hold a report without any preparation...
So Lucas Eisen intends to remain silent for this meeting.
Unfortunately, the other people's ideas seemed to be the same as Lucas Eisen, and John Perez took the initiative to come to him.
"Professor Eisen, why not talk about it first. I have carefully read the relevant announcements of Berkeley in recent times. It is impossible for the school level to offend Qiao Yu.
So I wondered if there was any unhappiness between one or several mathematicians in the school and Qiao Yu? If you know some news, maybe you should share it with everyone."
Lucas Eisen glanced at John Perez, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Perez. In fact, after I learned about this, I tried my best to inquire.
Unfortunately, at least as far as I know, no one has any displeasure with Qiao Yu. On the contrary, most mathematicians at Berkeley respect and even admire Qiao Yu's achievements."
After Lucas Eisen finished saying this, his grandson-in-law suddenly appeared in his mind for no reason.
He remembered some of the speculations he had used to.
Lucas Eisen had previously doubted whether Frank had offended Qiao Yu, or whether there was any unknown bond between the two.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain some of the things Qiao Yu did, and it seemed that he was always unable to get along with Frank intentionally or unintentionally.
The doubts that were suppressed at that time were because the behavior and attitude of the two of them after meeting were nothing abnormal, and Frank did not show any hostility towards Qiao Yu.
But today's emergencies once again aroused the doubts in Lucas Eisen's heart.
There is no love and hate in this world for no reason, just as any mathematical proof cannot be deduced out of thin air.
Of course, Lucas Eisen was just thinking in his mind and did not show it.
Even John Perez asked.
"Can you be sure? Professor Eisen."
"At least as far as I know, this is true. Of course, no one is an omniscient. I am also trying to find the truth, but it takes time.
In fact, we would rather see that the University of California system have a healthy development environment, so if I understand the truth, I will definitely inform the board of directors as soon as possible.”
Lucas Eisen replied without hesitation.
John Perez nodded. Even though he was unhappy at Lucas at this time, he could not offend the mathematician if he could not find a reason.
Of course, this emergency meeting did not ultimately discuss any effective countermeasures as John Perez hoped.
After all, saying a thousand words about this matter is actually Qiao Yu's attitude.
When John Perez sadly discovered that no one of the board members of the entire California university system could have a relationship with Qiao Yu, he had already confirmed that the meeting would end in vain and would only start to accuse each other and argue with each other!
So before it developed to the point where it would make him more irritated, John Perez decisively terminated the meeting.
Hopefully, after all, is Lucas Eisen. According to him, given the jet lag, he will have to wait until the evening to get a reply, so the next meeting will be set at 10 o'clock that night!
Yes, even if you sacrifice your rest time, you have to find an answer and quickly resolve the crisis.
After all, those damn technology companies don’t have much time left for them. Once many scientific research cooperation is really terminated, it will be difficult to restart it.
At the same time, Frank was also struggling.
After all, he is a member of the academic circle, a professor at Berkeley, and a professor of mathematics.
Qiao Yu's sudden big move made many faculty and staff at Berkeley panic, and naturally it also came to his ears.
Frank suddenly felt that the situation seemed to be not very good.
He suddenly attacked without reason and refused to reveal the reason... Could it be that Qiao Yu knew?!
Chapter completed!