States will need to start setting aside money during good times for the inevitable rainy day. And they’ll need to make higher education a bigger priority. Over the last 30 years, about the only thing in California that has grown as fast as college tuition is spending on the state’s vast network of new prisons. At the same time, it has let the best public university system in the world crumble. Colleges and universities will need to join the rest of society in the 21st century in utilizing advances in information technology. The alternative is unacceptable: that lower public investment, higher costs, and skyrocketing tuitions will turn public universities from engines of social mobility into enclaves of privilege. That’s the possibility students in California are fighting against. Everyone who believes in the promise of public education should be on their side.

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by Kevin Carey, Newsweek.

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