One thing that makes UC special is that it has been able to balance academic distinction with its democratic mission and public responsibility. If the Legislature ever got formal control, there’d be no telling what mischief — in hiring, in curriculum, in setting research priorities, in admissions preferences — the currents of political fashion could bring. Given the Legislature’s dim reputation with the voters, the amendment is likely to fail at the ballot box even if it passes out of the Legislature. But it’s a sure sign of the temptations that forever lurk under the Capitol dome, and of the ongoing danger to what may be California’s greatest public asset.

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by Peter Schrag, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: June 8th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.