With the University of California facing an increasingly precarious financial situation, the university’s Commission on the Future unveiled its final recommendations for maintaining the UC’s fiscal viability on Monday… Additional proposals recommend reaffirming the UC’s commitment to the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education and easing transfer students transition to a UC campus while others suggest reducing a student’s time to degree and further developing online education. The last two recommendations in particular have come under fire, with the Berkeley Faculty Association saying the reduced time to degree could wrest academic decision-making away from UC faculty and decrying the online project as a "boondoggle."

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo, The Daily Californian.

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