The University of California Libraries: A Plan for Development (1977)

I. The University and Its Libraries 11
150 academic staff members have been elected to the National Academy of
Sciences, and the Berkeley campus alone is second only to Harvard in the
number of Academy members. In 1976, the University's faculty members
were awarded 41 Guggenheim Fellowships out of a national total of 300,
more than any other university in the nation, and for the 12th time in
the past 13 years, faculty members on the Berkeley campus received more
of these prestigious fellowships than scholars on any other single campus.
These numbers speak to the caliber of individual faculty members,
but other measures confirm the standing of the faculty as a whole. In
its latest ranking of graduate programs, for example, the American Council
on Education rated Berkeley first, as it has in previous ratings. With
UCLA and UC San Diego, in fact, the University has three campuses with
graduate schools rated by the ACE as among the top 20 of the country.
The Students. Faculty of this caliber naturally attract outstanding
students, and graduates of the University have gone on to positions
of eminence and leadership throughout the State and the nation. Ninety
percent are California residents, but there are also students from all
50 states, and from more than 100 foreign countries. Nearly one-third
are studying at the graduate level.
Research. The distinction of the University's faculty is complemented
by the quality and scope of its research facilities. Each campus
maintains research units that includes laboratories, museums, centers,
and institutes. There are 135 Organized Research Units, and there are
research stations, field stations, and other research facilities in more
than 80 locations throughout California. Three specialized laboratories
--the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory,
and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (in New Mexico)--conduct important
work in high energy physics and related fields under contract
with the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA); in
recent years, they have also made important contributions in medical
physics. Three campuses--Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego--are
consistently among the top ten institutions in the country in the amount
of Federally-funded research support received, and additional research
funds are provided by private endowments and the University itself.