Governance With RCS including: Californians, people, citizens, governing, education, university, Land Grant College
It
appears that most Californians no longer think of the University of
California as our university. If that is the fact, I am sure that there
is a very good reason for them to think so.
Californians
now, it seems, think so little of their university that the now give it
very little support emotionally, intellectually, or financially. For
the first time in the history of the University, private
philanthropy contributes more to it than do the people of the State. I
am grateful that such help is available. However, I also see it as
another case of giving to the 1% that which once belonged to the people.
Once,
our plan for the University was that it not only be an engine that
fueled the economic prosperity of California, but also an institution
that developed citizens capable of governing the State and to help
govern the Nation.
Where
we once were willing to pay for for the education of students who were
able to govern as well as to produce wealth, we are now putting our
governance into the hands of those few parents who can afford to pay for
a great education for for their offspring now and to those certain
powerful organized private parties with a great accumulation of wealth.
What is the status of U of C at B as a Land Grant college?
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