State of the state—can California’s universities survive?
Public higher-education in California has absorbed over $1 billion in budget cuts in the past year, passing pain along to students, faculty and research facilities. But while the cuts were a necessary evil to balance the state’s woefully indebted budget, is it smart policy to chop down the very institutions that have made California great and should lead the state’s recovery? As we examine the “State of the State” we start with California’s struggling universities and ask whether they can survive the fiscal turmoil.
Public higher-education in California has absorbed over $1 billion in budget cuts in the past year, passing pain along to students, faculty and research facilities. But while the cuts were a necessary evil to balance the state’s woefully indebted budget, is it smart policy to chop down the very institutions that have made California great and should lead the state’s recovery? As we examine the “State of the State” we start with California’s struggling universities and ask whether they can survive the fiscal turmoil.
Guests:
Bonnie Rice, UC Regent and partner in the Pegasus Sustainable Century Merchant Bank
William Hauck, current member and former Chairman, Board of Trustees,
California State University; President, California Business Roundtable
- Patt Morrison for October 19, 2009
- LAPD future on the bottom line
- State of the state—can California’s universities survive?
- State of the state—attracting jobs to California & keeping them here
- Big man on campus
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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