…cutbacks in public funding nationwide have led to skyrocketing tuition increases and unsustainable growth in student debt loads. These “solutions” make it far more difficult for moderate-income students to get higher educations, curtailing their future prospects and ensuring that society won’t benefit from their full range of skills and talents. This is in direct opposition to the mission of public universities, which were designed to expand access, not limit it. There’s been a real impact. The CSU and UC systems had 50,000 fewer students enrolled in 2011 than they did in 2010. Unfortunately, privatizing more and more university operations doesn’t guarantee lower tuition, either. In addition to being in direct opposition to the mission of public universities – which are, after all, meant to be “public” – privatization increases the likelihood that a public university will charge students close to what they would pay at a private one. That’s no way to build a well-educated workforce for the future.

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by The Editors, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: June 26th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.