Asian Benefactors: Other challenges ahead are the old problem of whether the university favors its graduate schools at the expense of its undergraduate program and how the school will maintain its leading academic position in the face of state cuts in educational funding and the planned retirement of 4O percent of its senior faculty during the next ten years.
此外，柏克萊偏重研究而輕大學部教學的老問題；州政府連年刪減教育經費；未來十年百分之四十的資深教授將退休，柏克萊如何維持領先的學術地位… …，都是田長霖面臨的挑戰。