Meeting on Friday for the first time, the leaders of California’s three public higher education systems vowed to work closely together to bring them into the future — and to rally the public around their value to society. Speaking to an audience of state college lobbyists and advocates from around the country, new UC President Janet Napolitano — a former governor of Arizona and federal homeland security secretary — stressed that the message needs to be about investment, not need… White said “When I read about the master plan and I hear a lot of smart people saying it’s broken or needs to be thrown out, I say, ‘Nonsense,'” … “For those who say, ‘Well, Tim, you’ll save a lot of money if … you do more things online,’ that’s not correct,” he said.

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

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