All UC labs up for separate independent bidding

The Department of Energy has decided that both major laboratory facilities currently under UC control (Livermore and Los Alamos) will be up for bid independently for each other. This unpackaged deal is much more appealing to smaller, more independent contractors, making it less likely that a larger institution (i.e. a publicly funded university) will control both labs.

A full story can be found on the Daily Cal website.

If the university loses control of the administration for any or all of these labs, it will be more than just a financial setback for the university. Acts like these add to a string of debacles, like the folly that has become of the chancellor search and the press relations disaster of “admissions discrepancies”, that have continued to mar this university’s reputation. The campus administration continues to lose ground in the public arena without any justifiable (if there could be one) reason, and at this point, it is not just a string of random events. The administration needs to wake up, and fast, if it wants to avoid a fate of public school mediocrity for Berkeley, floundering as one of America’s flagship schools.
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