Full Interview: Mark Yudof, President of the University of California
What we do is different and our place in bringing California back is critically important. I mean, we will create the jobs and the new products. I just listened to a talk the other day by a New York Times journalist. It’s a different world, this great recession if you are a college graduate than if you are not a college graduate. It just is in terms of unemployment compensation. And we’re responsible in part, obviously for Silicon Valley, for the agricultural revolution, even our schools that do film-making and the like. That side that an educated populace going out and doing their thing, curiosity-driven research…it seems to me those are the types of things that will bring California back.
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by Jeremy Hobson and Mark Yudof, Marketplace.