The president of San Francisco State University said Monday that Gov. Jerry Brown “doesn’t seem to appreciate high-quality education in California.” In a telephone interview shortly after announcing his retirement, SFSU President Robert Corrigan accused Brown of not doing enough to protect higher education from deep budget cuts… “What is coming back to us is that the governor doesn’t seem to appreciate high-quality education in California,” Corrigan said. “My concern is that there is no appreciation of the important role that higher education plays in this community, that it makes them more productive, what it does for the population as a whole. We are losing out on good faculty coming in.” “It’s not clear why Mr. Corrigan would make such a misguided and inaccurate statement,” Gil Duran, the governor’s press secretary, wrote in an email. “His frustration would be better directed at the Republicans who denied the people a right to vote on Governor Brown’s balanced budget plan, which would have averted deeper cuts to the university.”

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by Jennifer Gollan, The Bay Citizen.

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