Brown’s ‘Chipotle’ recipe for higher education misses the most important ingredient
Resolving any of these problems, however, requires resources. And Brown’s recipe for higher education is missing the most important ingredient: funding. The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960, signed by Gov. Pat Brown, established three pillars for the UC: affordability, accessibility, and quality. A year later, Pat’s son, Jerry, graduated from Berkeley with a degree in classics – when the UC was officially tuition-free. The UC’s problem is not that it is dissimilar to Chipotle. It is that our principles of affordability, accessibility, and quality have been lost… Governor Brown wants the UC to be more like Chipotle. We want him to put his money where his mouth is.
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by Rigel Robinson and Varsha Sarveshwar, The Sacramento Bee.