Gov. Jerry Brown challenges UC, Cal State to make big changes
Brown hopes to use state purse strings to force down their expenses, hold the line on tuition and fees, and graduate more students more quickly. He wants more teaching, less research and more online courses to save money and increase offerings. He says more students should be accepted from California’s community colleges… in the UC system, whose independence is enshrined in California’s Constitution. Relationships between governors and the two systems can be rocky. In the state budget he proposed last week, Brown increased money for the two systems by more than $250 million each — less than they requested, but enough to avert tuition hikes in the fall, leaders of both systems have indicated. If they want more in the future, the governor said, they’ll need to do as he asks.
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by Anthony York, The Los Angeles Times.