A plan to save public education by abandoning it
The proposal by UCLA's Anderson School of Management to raise tuition and forgo public funding would cut off access to the less than wealthy and set a dangerous precedent for other public professional schools.
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Understandable as the University of California's precarious budget situation is, raising tuition to the level of private universities for specific programs is unacceptable.
We see problems with both the process and the substance of the drastic proposal to essentially privatize the UCLA Anderson School of Management and charge $50,000 for in-state tuition, as reported on Sept. 9 by The Times.
On the process side, we expect administrators to involve students in the decisions that shape students' lives, especially a decision of this magnitude. Instead, administrators have met behind closed doors and failed to formally include students. Beginning most notably last November, people throughout the state have mobilized to protest these types of top-down proposals, which have been implemented at the expense of students and the public. Jerry Trapnell of the Assn. to Advance
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