Why the Regents and Yudof Want Us to Blame the State, and Why We Must Resist

November 29th 2009, by Bob Samuels

There are two main narratives battling to define the current crisis at the University of California. President Yudof and the Regents want everyone to blame all of the UC’s problems on the state. According to this narrative, the simple issue is that the state has defunded higher education, and due to a $1.2 billion cut to the UC, all the campuses can do is raise fees, cut courses, layoff workers, increase class size, furlough faculty, and demand that the state increases its funding by $913 million. (Link to rest of Article/Blog)