Breaking Up the UC System?

Inside Higher Ed today has a lengthy article on recent proposals to give the various UC campuses more autonomy. These proposals have primarily been emanating from UC-Berkeley and UC-San Francisco.  The article goes over some of the past statements and documents relating to this issue and provides a review of related developments in other state systems.

The article is at:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/11/university-california-faces-questions-about-its-governance-structure

Clearly, breaking up the system would be difficult: