"Students protest higher fees. Faculty lament instructional cuts. Administrators complain the state is an unreliable funding partner to public colleges and universities. It's time to get beyond griping and move on to solutions.
Ironically, California is about to mark -- celebrate certainly is not the right word -- the 50th anniversary of the Master Plan for Higher Education. That 1960 plan made a commitment that 'all Californians should be afforded the opportunity to receive a college education.' It made California a national model. For a generation, the 1960 Master Plan delivered prosperity to the state and a higher standard of living for residents."