Neon Tommy is an online student news service of the USC Annenberg School. The service features a news item dated Nov. 28 which reviews UC's "Onward" fundraising campaign. That's right; USC is reviewing UC. What is interesting about the piece is what isn't in it. Back in the day - say, the 1950s or 1960s - any such story would deal with the impact of a public university competing with privates in fundraising. Private universities would complain about the competition and say UC should be getting its funding from the state. But despite the traditional USC-UCLA rivalry, no such view is mentioned in the story. The idea that UC should rely on the state no longer even occurs to anyone.
You can read the item at:
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/education-cuts-pushes-uc-onward
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