The LAO Is Getting Higher Ed Wrong
Here’s the problem: LAO is way too focused on higher ed as it relates to the budget. And so it has argued for limited enrollment growth at CSU and flat enrollment at UC. There’s a wonky word that the LAO folks will understand for their position: it’s nuts. Applications to universities in California and elsewhere are way up. And California needs to produce many more college graduates for itself. And California has a huge interest both in luring college kids from other states and keeping the California kids it has paid to educate. So why limit enrollment? … LAO needs to think about why it is making assumptions that position it as hostile to college access. And then do some serious rethinking on higher ed.
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by Joe Mathews, Fox and Hounds.