In prior posts, we have noted some signs that perhaps a deal within the Committee of Two hasn't been sealed. The main indication is that UC prez Napolitano has been running an independent campaign to obtain support for UC's tuition/budget proposal and presumably put pressure on Gov. Brown.
The latest manifestation of the campaign has gone national - the National Journal to be specific:
So-called innovations that lower the cost of tuition won't address
the University of California's problems, University of California System
President Janet Napolitano said at a National Journal Live event Thursday in San Jose. But state funding might. "In
the never-ending quest to innovate higher education, the major focus has
been making colleges and universities cheaper—cheaper for students,
cheaper for state legislators, and cheaper for those who run the
institutions," said Napolitano. "In the process, we run the risk of
cheapening the education itself." Napolitano
is currently locked in a battle with Gov. Jerry Brown and the
California legislature over the system's budget. University leaders want
more state funding or the ability to be able to raise tuition every
year for the next five years. But Brown has written a tuition freeze
into his budget plan. Last month, Napolitano said that UC will cap the
number of in-state students it admits if the system doesn't get more
funding. "We're
doing everything we can to manage costs," she said at the event. "But
all costs are not waste." The UC system gets the same amount of state
funding that it received in 1999, Napolitano noted, even though
enrollment has grown tremendously in the meantime. The system has had to
raise tuition and enroll more out-of-state students, who pay higher
tuition than Californians...
Full story at http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/population-2043/the-battle-to-fund-california-s-public-university-system-20150430
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