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Wednesday, February 04, 2004
The Department of Education, in conjunction with FedEx and Berkeley's inefficient mailing division, have joined forces to deny Berkeley any Fulbright Scholarships this year over a trivial missed deadline.
The decision announced Friday, Jan. 30, by the Department of Education came after weeks of escalating appeals, including a special trip to Washington, D.C., by Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl in mid-January to meet with department officials.The complete story is a long litany of screwups and uncaring bureaucrats. But lets emphasize two things: 1) Berkeley's complete isolation from government. In days past President Kerr, among others, had enormous influence on education policy nationwide. Now our Chancellor can't even personally beg mid-level bureaucrats to change an arbitrary deadline for one of the top research Universities in the Country. What the heck happened? When and why did we become so utterly powerless? This is part of a general trend that has seen us be the budgetary whipping boy in California and possibly denied administration of a Lab this is down the street. Let us review: our Chancellor personally flew to Washington DC to beg officials to obey their own rules and they turned him down. Now we're reduced to sending out indignant press releases. 2) Berkeley's inefficient mailings. Considering that millions of dollars are at stake, UC still can't send a package anytime before the day it is due? Despite it being ready to send three days prior? The applications were processed and ready Friday, Oct. 17, and overnight express pick-up was scheduled for Monday, Oct. 20, the postmark deadline.For the University to pin full blame on the Department of Education is nearly correct, but ignores the fact that our Bureaucracy helped create a crisis situation.Email This Post! |
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