"Higher education has been a stodgy stalwart for the last 1200 years, but a good crisis usually works wonders – we have not seen this kind of turmoil since the original Movimiento Chicano. The University of California system president stated in November that tuition for California residents will go up by “32 percent over the next two years—from $7,788 to $10,302.” Outraged students at Berkeley, UCLA, and elsewhere occupied campus buildings. A crisis is brewing that appears to have legs.Tuition has gone up at ASU and everywhere, but not like in California. The California budget crisis makes the financial “San Andreas Fault” visible to the naked eye, but the University of California has been in difficult straits for years now. In contrast, the academic environment at ASU has gone straight up since 2002, when Michael Crow took the presidential helm"
