Online education is an emerging issue at the University of California, with Gov. Jerry Brown and UC leadership strongly in support of moving some portion of a UC education online. At the last UC Board of Regents meeting, online education was viewed as a potentially transformational development — the modernization Read More…
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was previously published in the California Aggie. Here at the University of California, students are living in interesting times. After nearly a billion dollars in state funding cuts and a doubling of tuition in just five years, 2013 looks to deliver at least a moment of Read More…
Once considered one of the best community colleges in the nation, the City College of San Francisco is on the verge of collapse. CCSF is likely to be another one of the many casualties of the lack of adequate funding for education in our state. In response to this lack Read More…
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Below is an info-graphic that outlines how the state of California has changed its allocation of state spending to different agencies.
Sacramento is finally starting to seriously reverse its divestment from higher education. With the state beginning to emerge from a deep slump of deficits and spending cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month announced a budget plan for the next fiscal year that proposes sorely needed increased funding to the Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown delivered his State of the State address Thursday, in which he reflected on the state of California’s higher education system.
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Online education is an attractive venue for universities to explore, and for good reason. It offers many advantages to higher education institutions, from the prospect of saving costs to expediting students’ time in the classroom and expanding a university’s reach. But if UC officials are going to invest heavily in Read More…
Despite proposed increases in state funding for higher education, members of the UC Board of Regents expressed concerns about Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, citing it as a temporary solution to long-term financial woes at their meeting Thursday. Read More…
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed an increase in state funding of $250 million for the UC in his 2013-14 proposed budget, released Thursday.
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