…when Brown claimed this week that university research is part of the problem rather than something to celebrate and encourage, he was simply wrong. Research is what separates, and properly so, the UC campuses from, say, our community colleges, where teaching is the only responsibility. The suggestion came during a Regents meeting this week in which Brown properly hammered away at fellow overseers of the university about the need to cut costs and avoid new tuition increases. With scholarships included, for middle-class families, it’s cheaper to send a kid to Harvard or Brown than it is to UCLA. That’s a California tragedy, and everyone who knows what the UC and California State University systems have meant to building the greatness of this state needs to work to reverse this trend.

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by The Editors, The Los Angeles Daily News.

Posted: January 17th, 2013, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.