Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Opinion: California's higher-education debacle
In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, Jeff Bleich, a longtime member of the Board of Trustees of the California State University system, the last two as its chairman, shares his deep concern for California's higher-education system.
He writes, "This experience has been more than just professional; it has been a deeply personal one. With my term ending soon, I need to share my concern -- and personal pain -- that California is on the verge of destroying the very system that once made this state great."
Bleich adds that as someone who "has lived the California dream," he finds "there is nothing more painful to me than to see this dream dying. It is being starved to death by a public that thinks any government service -- even public education -- is not worth paying for. And by political leaders who do not lead but instead give in to our worst, shortsighted instincts."
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He writes, "This experience has been more than just professional; it has been a deeply personal one. With my term ending soon, I need to share my concern -- and personal pain -- that California is on the verge of destroying the very system that once made this state great."
Bleich adds that as someone who "has lived the California dream," he finds "there is nothing more painful to me than to see this dream dying. It is being starved to death by a public that thinks any government service -- even public education -- is not worth paying for. And by political leaders who do not lead but instead give in to our worst, shortsighted instincts."
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