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A Sad Day for Higher Education

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Tuition will exceed general fund support for the first time for UC system this year

by Brian Leubitz

There was once a vision for education in California that allowed us to dream big.  It allowed the state to have expectations for the future, because we were investing in it through education.  We went so far as to build a master plan that included tuition free higher education.  Those days now seem like an extremely distant dream.

For the first time, the total amount that University of California students pay in tuition this year will surpass the funding the prestigious public university receives from the state. It is a historic shift for the UC system and part of a national trend that is changing the nature of public higher education.

Propelled by budget crises in California and elsewhere, the burden of paying for education at a public college or university, once heavily subsidized by taxpayers, is shifting to students and their families. (LA Times)

While the Right is crowing about class warfare, they are doing their damnedest to ensure that those below them can’t work their way up.  Higher education, for several generations, has been the most significant way of upward mobility.  Decreasing access further cements that the rich stay rich.  A sad day for the California dream, indeed.

5 thoughts on “A Sad Day for Higher Education”

  1. While the Right is crowing about class warfare

    I have said many times that we’ve been in a class war for over 30 years, it is about time that the working and merchant classes started fight back against the plutocrats.

  2. If you want to talk about Class Warfare at UC….

    LOOK AT Administrators’ salaries

    They’re out of Control !!

    This is why is supporting Sen. Leland Yee for Mayor of SF

    He’s one of the few prominent Democrats who speaks out against exorbitant UC salaries

    THERE’S the CLASS WARFARE

    GO LELAND YEE !!!

  3. you guys don’t think part of the problem is the lost of focus in the university system.  Before it was about high emd technica jobs (engineering to law).  but the bulk of students that go to college and take on debt get a degree in someting they won’t work in and really end up taking jobs that their high school edcation is just fine with but the resume asks for BA.

    Its not about throwing money at the system we need to seriousy sit down and look at what levels of education will really need for the jobs out there.  The education system has become a racket.

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