The program Yudof approved is a step back from the university’s original plan, proposed in 2010, to make the whole school self-sufficient. After pushback from UCLA faculty, the plan was pared back to just the M.B.A. program, leaving the doctoral program and undergraduate classes under traditional control. That plan received support from UCLA faculty but got what was essentially a “no” vote from the UC System’s Academic Senate, which argued that the program did not meet any of the criteria for establishing a self-supporting program. Critics of the proposal also said the state has poured decades of operational and capital funding into the program and wouldn’t be adequately compensated if it made the program self-sustaining.

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by Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed.

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