July 14, 2020

A Student Talks Up UC-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

The University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) has one of the most beautiful campuses I could ever hope to visit. Unfortunately, life in COVID times does not make it possible for me to visit now. So when I was offered an opportunity to talk about the UCSB experience with a graduating […]
March 30, 2016

The University of California System is Not a System at All

This week I have read a story that the University of California system has supposedly relaxed admissions standards for non-residents who wanted to attend its member schools. While you might not read such a story about university systems in states such as Delaware, Michigan, Vermont and Virginia that have historically […]
June 3, 2015

My Time on Campus: University of California-Berkeley

During the week of May 11th I took the educated quest west to give a talk, visit my brother and check out four Northern California schools. My visit to the University of California-Berkeley was the shortest. I had already been to the campus ten years before. It had not changed […]