By Linda Katehi, in The Huffington Post
Around the same time my parents’ generation was dreaming that higher education was in their children’s future, the California Legislature adopted the Master Plan for Higher Education, setting priorities for the University of California, California State University and community college systems. The Master Plan reflected California’s commitment to higher education as a public good. Recently, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a roundtable in Sacramento to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the California Master Plan for Higher Education — a plan that, even as we celebrate it today, is clearly at risk.
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From University World News
US research universities are under threat from the recession and social changes, Linda Katehi, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, told scientists at a recent American Association for the Advancement of Science policy forum.
Katehi said the two factors were combining to undermine universities. State support for universities was shrinking; in California, for example, state funding for the University of California was half what it was 25 years ago in real terms.
The result was big increases in tuition fees and these could go higher still, making university education unaffordable to many people.
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