UC doesn’t know exactly how it spends its money — and maybe it honestly can’t know. Is the salary for a teaching assistant — who is also a doctoral candidate working in her mentor’s lab — money for undergraduate instruction, for research or for graduate education? How do you distinguish a professor’s teaching from his research on a spreadsheet? How do you allocate the budget for the library or for the custodians and groundskeepers? More fundamentally, how do you resolve the inherent tension between trying to be a highly ranked, selective research institution competing with Harvard, Stanford and other lavishly endowed private universities and trying to be a public university as well? Can you be meritocratic and democratic too?

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by Peter Schrag, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: January 18th, 2015, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.