Jerry Brown pressing for efficiencies at California's universities - David Siders, Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown, who paid relatively little attention to the University of California for the first two years of his term, started showing up for board meetings late last year, urging spending reductions as part of a "new paradigm" in higher education. "We are going to have to restrain this system in many, many of its elements," Brown said in November, "and this will come with great resistance." If his intentions were not entirely clear, they became so Thursday, when Brown released his annual budget plan. He chastised the UC and California State University systems for years of cost increases and rising tuition. Though he proposed additional funding of $250 million next year for each system, the amount fell short of what they requested. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/13/5110838/jerry-brown-pressing-for-efficiencies.html