The Deification of Reagan

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by doucanoe

It's shameful how they are conducting themselves, Carl. Here we are trying to provide our young people with the tools to become productive, innovative world class decision makers and the system is heaping on them massive financial burdens that they don't even full comprehend yet. I'm certainly not calling for "free" post high school education but the cost to benefit ratio has got to be questioned at some point.

In response to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to slash $500 million from the University of California budget, UC President Mark G. Yudof said this week that he might be forced to flout the state's 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education by reducing enrollment by thousands of students who otherwise would qualify for entrance.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,5809615.story

As they wrapped up their meeting in San Diego, the regents also awarded controversial, 10% pay raises to three financial managers in the UC president’s office whose salaries after the increases will range from $216,370 to $247,500. Officials defended the one-time raises as a way to save money in the long run;

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...pay-hikes.html




Just a taste, there is much more of this type of nonsense going on.


Carl