Been reading about the raids of USC from UC-San Diego and UCLA? Here's what it turns out the UC campuses lack: nimbleness!
It began with one university's courtship of another's faculty star —
the kind of talent poaching that has become commonplace in American
academia. But USC's luring of Alzheimer's disease expert Paul
Aisen away from UC San Diego has blown up into a legal battle over
money, control of research data and the fate of a pioneering study... Aisen said bureaucratic and financial problems at UC San Diego made
it difficult to maintain and expand his research and that USC is more
flexible, allowing him to "optimize" his work...
His
complaint echoed that of two neuroscientists, Arthur Toga and Paul
Thompson, who left UCLA two years ago for new facilities, higher pay and
what they described as a more nimble environment at USC...
Full story at http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-usc-sandiego-20150719-story.html
I guess we can't hold a candle to USC:
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