UCLA and UC Berkeley reported no significant change in outside recruiting this year, and some experts said that because the two campuses are seen as the most prestigious in the UC system, faculty might be more reluctant to leave.
Nevertheless, Scott Waugh, UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost, said concerns about state finances loom larger these days in faculty decisions to stay or move to UC, along with traditional factors of family and housing.
For example, UC Berkeley political science professor Wendy Brown said she was considering an attractive offer from Columbia University. UC has said it would match the 12-percent pay increase, but she said she has not asked Berkeley for the extra research and housing funds that the private New York school is offering.
Brown said it was a difficult decision for many UC faculty, because “we love the idea of a public university” and especially one of UC’s quality. Yet Brown, who has taught at UC Berkeley since 1999 and at UC Santa Cruz for the preceding 10 years, fears budget cuts could turn UC into a factory-like school.
Other universities, she said, are taking advantage of that uncertainty: “I think they believe UC people are not barnacles attached to the ship anymore.”
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