NINE of the ten campuses of the University of California\u2014led by Berkeley\u2014once again made it into an annual ranking of the world\u2019s leading universities, published last month by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. All\u2019s well in Californian higher education, it might seem.<\/p>\n
But that is not what Pat Brown or Clark Kerr would say, were they alive today. They were, respectively, governor of the state and president of the University of California (UC) in 1960, when California adopted a \u201cmaster plan\u201d that became an international model. Their aim was not only to have excellent public universities, but to give the state\u2019s population nearly universal and free access to them. Some pupils would enter so-called community colleges for a two-year vocational programme, others one of the (now 23) campuses of the California State University (CSU), and the best might go to a UC campus.<\/p>\n
In order to assure access for all, tuition charges were banned\u2014only \u201cfees\u201d for some costs other than education were allowed. Most funding was to come from taxpayers. The premise was that higher education was a public good for the state, which was nursing its own future entrepreneurs and taxpayers. As Mr Kerr put it, the universities were \u201cbait to be dangled in front of industry, with drawing power greater than low taxes or cheap labour\u201d.<\/p>\n
That consensus has been upended. In 1990 the state paid 78% of the cost of educating each student. That ratio dropped to 47% last year, and will fall even more during the current academic year, after the latest round of budget cuts, overseen by Jerry Brown, the current governor and son of Pat Brown. In some ways, California has now inverted the priorities of the older Brown\u2019s era. Spending on prisons passed spending on universities in around 2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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