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At every regents’ meeting, one of UC’s 10 chancellors offers a glimpse of life on campus. On Wednesday, it was Birgeneau’s turn. He told the regents that Cal has 20 Nobel laureates, teaches 63 languages and awards more doctorates than any other U.S. campus. He said UC Berkeley has produced more than 3,000 Peace Corps volunteers since 1961. He also mentioned that 85 percent of current freshmen graduated from public high schools, 70 percent have at least one parent born outside the United States and 28 percent come from families where neither parent has a four-year degree. His opening and closing flourish was identical: a photograph of 10,000 students, faculty, staff and community members crammed into Sproul Plaza on Inauguration Day in January. “In the Sixties it would have been 10,000 protesters,” Birgeneau said.
