Will the California legislature continue to support a research university? - University to the Rescue Blog

Understandably, most public attention on California higher ed has been focused on the meetings between President Napolitano and Governor Brown. But in the last few weeks the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst's office have both attempted to intervene and shape the debate over UC funding. To some extent these interventions may simply indicate the Legislature's desire to become part of a process they seem excluded from at present. But they do suggest both a wider political context for UC and that UC faces a significant debate over the nature of the research university and how the state will conceive of its relationship to the research moving forward. http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-legislature-and-research-university.html