The University of California regents will break with tradition and move their May meeting from the usual settings on UC campuses to Sacramento so officials can participate in a rally at the state Capitol for improved funding for higher education. Regents Chairwoman Sherry Lansing announced that switch Wednesday as the regents began discussions about Gov. Jerry Brown’s grim proposal for next year’s state budget… “Unless our elected representatives start funding us at a realistic level, UC’s ability to serve the state and its citizens will be at serious risk,” Lansing said at a regents meeting being held at UC Riverside. “UC is the best investment in California’s economic future that our state leaders can make. It’s up to all of us to remind them of that.”

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by Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times.

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