Lawmakers urged to invest in higher ed
"Research reports suggest our (higher education) system is now at grave risk," said Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, co-chairman of the committee that is examining the Master Plan that has guided higher education for nearly 50 years. He and Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Chino (San Bernardino County), are holding hearings to evaluate the plan and "get our higher education back on track," Ruskin said. "We can all agree that our current system is in crisis and that we can rescue it before it’s too late." But several speakers told the lawmakers that their fiscal approach to higher education – not necessarily the Master Plan – should change. "You have to affirm the Master Plan’s promise, not compromise it by reorganizing it to what you can now afford," said Brian Murphy, chief consultant to an earlier review of the Master Plan, from 1985 to 1989.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.