Another staggering tuition increase being proposed at University of California campuses is wrong-headed, and will damage California for years to come. We should be investing in our brightest young people and not driving them away from our public universities. There was a time when California’s leadership understood that its first-rate public university system would produce graduates whose skills put the state on the cutting edge of almost every sector of American society. Now the once-proud UC and California State University campuses are decaying under a leadership philosophy that no longer treats students as assets. So it’s hardly surprising that UC President Mark Yudof is recommending a 15percent increase in tuition next spring and a second 15 percent increase beginning in fall of 2010.

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by The Editors, The Torrance Daily Breeze.

Posted: September 15th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.