"California isn’t the seventh-largest economy in the world by accident," Zingg said. Its higher-education master plan developed in 1960 "accommodated the baby boomers who went on to create Silicon Valley, the health-care industry, the entertainment industry" and all the other economic engines that drive the state. The investment has paid off many times over, he said. Cutting higher education would be foolish, he insisted. He urged attendees to become active, to join the newly formed Alliance for the CSU, to join the student-led "March for Higher Education" April 21 in Sacramento, and to do whatever they can to let legislators and the governor know they want more money put into higher education, not less.

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by Robert Speer, The Chico News and Review.

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