Keep the Promise of Affordable Higher Education
The Master Plan for Higher Education promised affordable access to a high quality post secondary education for all Californians who wished to pursue it. It wedded a visionary economic blueprint for the state’s workforce to the moral, intellectual and political purposes of providing our state’s citizens with the means to participate in our democratic institutions. It was meant to be accountable due to its substantial cost. Its goals remain the right ones, but changing political and economic circumstances have undermined its promise today, and threaten, if unaddressed, to renege on its promise for future generations.
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by Dennis Smith, The California Progress Report.
