Home Page of

Charles Schwartz

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
contact by email: schwartz@physics.berkeley.edu

This is the ORIGINAL website (RESTORED 6/12/2008) http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz

The INTERIM website (from 11/07 to 6/08) was http://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz

Critiques of the University

                TOPIC: Cost Accounting at a Research University

Recent Op-Eds:
          Daily Californian (9/7/07), S.F. Chronicle (9/20/07), Unpublishable (12/07), L.A. Times (5/27/08)

Continuation of the Series: "Financing the University" --
          Part 10 (4/15/07), Part 11 (4/25/07), Part 12 (5/2/07), Part 13 (9/30/07), Part 14 (2/13/08),
         LATEST: Part 15 (6/26/08)

Continuation of the Series: "What's Happening with the Pension Fund?" --
           Part 25 (7/2/07)

UCB Anthropology 139 Lecture (2/19/08)

UCRP - Data & Questions (9/30/06), UCRP - Peer Comparisons (1/29/07), UCRP - The Question of Fees (7/9/08)

Performance Reports for UC's External Investment Managers (8/23/06), Update (2/2/07)

Executive Compensation (1992 -> 2/22/06), Statement to the Regents (4/13/06)
OP/ED (unpublished), Letter to the Editor (5/17/06)

Secrets of the Regents (7/17/05), NEW LEGISLATION (introduced 6/06 ...)

The Cost of Undergraduate Education at a Research University (9/11/05) Experts Respond (11/27/05)
Part II (12/18/05), Feedback, Letter to Stanford (3/11/06)
Improved Calculation of the Cost (12/15/07)

Questions about Privatization of UC
a failed initiative before the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate: April 25, 2005

LAWSUIT (4/1/03 to 1/12/04)
a successful action against excessive secrecy in the investment activities of The Regents

Recent Series:

"What's Happening with the Pension Fund?" --
           Part 1 (10/2/00), Part 2 (10/9/00), Part 3 (10/16/00), Part 4 (10/23/00), Part 5 (10/30/00),
           Part 6 (3/27/01), Part 7 (4/23/01), Part 8 (5/4/01), Part 9 (5/18/01), Part 10 (6/6/01),
           Part 11 (9/28/01), Part 12 (10/18/02), Part 13 (11/4/02), Part 14 (12/18/02), Part 15 (1/26/03),
           Part 16 (1/26/03), Part 17 (2/24/03), Part 18 (5/29/03), Part 19 (10/29/03), Part 20 (2/29/04),
   Part 21 (3/28/04), Part 22 (4/21/04), Part 23 (7/6/04) , Part 24 (10/17/05),
             related materials: Mullinix1 Correction-Part 14 Risk-Adjusted Returns Russ' Whoppers

"Financing the University" --
           Part 1 (3/2/00), Part 2 (4/27/00), Part 3 (7/3/00), Part 4 (8/27/00), Part 5 (11/27/01)
           Part 6 (9/1/03), Part 7 (11/28/04), Part 8 (2/13/05), Part 9 (10/17/05)
             related Letters, Hershman Letter

delicious wisdom (from a fortune cookie): "Ask and you shall receive, this includes trouble."

--------- Last updated July 9, 2008

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