"Our view: Everyone agrees the state's colleges need more funding. Nobody can answer where that funding should come from.
As college administrators plead their case, students protest higher fees and legislators get an earful about the state of higher education, it's safe to say there's nearly universal agreement on one thing — California's colleges are in disarray and need more funding.
Who doesn't?
Even legislators would agree that the state is reneging on its contract as written in the 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education. A different compact negotiated with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004 for steady funding in exchange for predictable student-fee hikes has also been thrown out the window."