It’s been nearly a half century since the late Clark Kerr, who helped build the University of California into the world-class institution it became, made his classic observation that California’s universities, were "bait to be dangled in front of industry, with drawing power greater than low taxes or cheap labor." But that was then and this is now. The university Kerr built, probably the brightest jewel in California’s crown, with its great labs, its Nobel laureates and its global reach, is in serious trouble, a victim of what comes close to criminal neglect. Maybe the governor and legislature, its tax-cutting fanatics most of all, never knew the value of that asset. If they did, they seem to have long forgotten it. Or maybe they just don’t care.

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by Peter Schrag, California Progress Report.

Posted: September 2nd, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.