Higher education is not just another state program to be slashed and burned in yet another stopgap budget panic. Without affordable higher education, California will have a difficult time emerging from the recession — and the innovations and entrepreneurial job-creating advances that come from this system will go elsewhere. The state is at a crossroads. Our government’s approach to how higher education is funded must change. We like what De Anza Community College President Brian Murphy, who was chief consultant to an earlier review of the Master Plan, told the committee Monday. "You have to affirm the Master Plan’s promise, not compromise it by reorganizing it to what you can now afford," he said. "You can’t solve the higher education problem absent a reform of the financial system."

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by The Editors, The Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Posted: December 9th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.