The more that foreign and out-of-state students register at the University of California and higher tuition and fees are pushed, the more legitimate it becomes for taxpayers who built and still largely fund the 10-campus system to wonder who it will belong to in the future. It’s a question that got new force early this month when UCLA officials voted to take their graduate school of business private, making it depend solely on a variety of grants, plus student tuition and fees. No one knows if the UC system will remain as it has been for more than 70 years — the single biggest incubator for upward mobility of young Americans — or if it will become a playground for the rich of California and other places. But all indications at this moment are that UC campuses are gradually going to cater more and more to the wealthy.

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by thomas d. elias, The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted: June 12th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.