On UCs and Higher Education

University of California president Mark G. Yudof has written a paper about what the Federal Government's role should be in higher education across the nation. He has also expressed the same sentiments in an article published in The Chronicle.

Regardless of what I think of him, he is right on this point.

Meanwhile, last Wednesday, Yudof & Co. voted to increase fees by 32% in the University of California over the next year. With another predicted deficit in California's budget, there is a good possibility that funding to education will be cut further, resulting in even higher fees and tuitions in the near future.

Students at UCLA, who had come from all of the UCs, protested the measure.

California in the News

California seemed to be the main preoccupation of last week's edition of The Economist, from the expansion of the state in the 1960s and its initial and recurring problems, to the troubled state of the University of California system, and the legalization of marijuana and the economic consequences that accompany it.

NPR follows up with a report on the popularity of medical marijuana in the state. The audio can be found at the same link, since it cannot be embedded here. More marijuana news from a retirement community in Orange County, where the residents are trying to popularize the use of marijuana, as well as encourage its cultivation within the community. The accompanying audio is, again, at the same link.