Tom Campbell, a long-shot Republican candidate for governor, former state legislator, former congressman, lays out his plan for increasing public college enrollment without increasing public spending. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He taught economics at Stanford U and was dean of the UC Berkeley business school. 

Tom Campbell Q&A Pt. 1: Taxes and fixing the economy, Sept. 17, 2009

Part 1         http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/17/tom-campbell-qa-pt-1-taxes-and-fixing-the-economy/22063/

Campbell Q&A Pt. 2: More college students, smaller classes, Sept. 20, 2009

Part 2         http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/20/campbell-qa-pt-1-more-college-students-smaller-classes/22165/

excerpt:

The method I would use for adding funding to CSU and UC is to go to market rate on tuition, but increase the Cal Grant at the same time. And guarantee, which we presently don’t, that you can get enough courses to qualify for a Cal Grant, because you have to be a full-time student.

That way, those who could afford it would be paying for it. The tuition would go to the school and to the system to be a source of revenue that we haven’t used. But it would not be unfair to folks of low income. The Cal Grant is particularly beneficial because it doesn’t operate as “you qualify or you don’t” but on a sliding scale depending on your income.