“What we have found is that a lot of the alumni think back to when they went to school and they think, I did it, why can’t they do it?” said Nathan Bostrom, executive vice president for business operations for the University of California. “But the state makes up just 11 percent of our budget now. So it will have to come from other funding sources.” Alumni are also skeptical about how UC will spend the money they give. “The university is being run more and more like a corporation, so there’s not a lot of faith I can put into the administration right now,” said Alejandra Cruz, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2006 before earning her law degree from UCLA last year. “I’m afraid that my money won’t go into bettering the university as a whole. Instead it will go into the pockets of university administrators or to another construction project.” The shaky economy is another reason for alumni reluctance.

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by Jennifer Gollan, The Bay Citizen.

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