UC’s net revenues have stagnated for 20 years, have not kept up with the income benchmark, and are far behind enrollment growth. State cuts and quiet general fund erosion have already lowered UC quality. They have lowered it specifically for the most economically and racially diverse population in California memory. Sacramento’s funding practice gives much less per-student educational funding to today’s students-of-color majority than it gave to their majority white predecessors a generation ago–even after we count revenues from tripled in-state tuition. This losing battle has taken place in a state that has seen one of the most intense accumulations of wealth in recorded history… Any state revenue cuts now will directly cut UC quality again. This time, the damage may be irreversible. State government must now reverse the chronic underfunding policy of recent decades. It must keep UC (and CSU) whole for the sake of the state.

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by Chris Newfield, Remaking The University.

Posted: May 24th, 2020, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.