It is cliche to say the higher education system is what created California as the Golden State, the land of aerospace and high-tech and easy living, but that doesn’t make it any less true. We have chosen to blow up the bridge behind us.

Professors aren’t being hired. Employees are being furloughed. The higher education system that once was the model for the nation and beyond is now becoming a cautionary tale.

With the latest and coming cuts, the educational assembly line will still crank out graduates, but fewer leaders. The line will move more quickly, with less time for polishing the product and much less time for research and development. The GOP legislators with their bumper-sticker approach to policy issues worry about businesses that might move out if taxes rise by tiny amounts. Do they worry about young scholars moving east and north?

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by The Editor, The Monterey County Herald.

Posted: July 17th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.