It’s been 20 years since Patrick Callan, maybe our most thoughtful analyst of higher education policy, observed that just as waves of poor and minority students were nearing college age, the proportion of state budgets allocated to college and university support was going down. The decline has only gotten steeper in the years since. In California, as in many other states, that may be more than coincidence. It’s not conscious racism – not in the majority of cases anyway. But it raises the first of a series of disturbing questions about what Callan calls our dysfunctional higher education system.

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by Peter Schrag, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: October 21st, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.