California’s public university systems have unprecedented numbers of qualified applicants for admission at the same time they’re reducing student slots. They’ll turn away about 150,000 qualified people this year. This amounts to all but abandoning the state’s 50-year-old master plan for higher education… We want government services galore, yet every poll shows the vast majority of us don’t want new levies to pay for them. Which leaves us with choices. We – not our politicians – put ourselves into this spot. Getting out will require sacrifices, but no politician now seeking high office has asked for any, except from state employees and the powerless, including battered women. Which will leave us stuck in this situation until our ideas and presumptions become more realistic.

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by Thomas D. Elias, The Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Posted: January 2nd, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.