Quality Education Comes at a Cost
Students have been asked to pay more of the costs that our university’s academic excellence requires, and faculty, administrators and other workers have been asked to make sacrifices so the burden on the students may be lessened. The sacrifices made by the faculty can only last so long and go so far. Extending furloughs, in order to lessen the tuition burden on students, will undermine the very institution they seek access to. Professors are both a standard and necessary condition for quality of education. The best professors both attract the top talent and produce it. Professors of the quality UC Berkeley is able to attract have alternative options. But for whatever reason, our professors choose to teach here. They will not continue to make that choice if they are continually forced to take pay cuts…
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by James Morris, The Daily Californian.