Sunday, December 20, 2009

Another take on the U. of California fee increases


I published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle today, outlining why the fee increases imposed by the UC regents was the right decision.  The op-ed was based on my earlier blog post on the topic.  There was an opposing piece written by the former admissions director at UC Berkeley, as well as two other op-eds. You can see all of them in the Chronicle's Sunday Insight section.
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  1. UnknownDecember 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM

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  2. UnknownDecember 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM

    Thanks for writing this Don. What's the corollary story for the CSU?

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  3. Donald HellerDecember 21, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    Windy -- excellent point; you're right that the more elite institutions/systems receive an undue amount of attention, and I am guilty of that in this piece. In my defense, the Chron gave me a very small window - 700 words or so - for my piece. So while I consider the entire California system in crisis, I decided to just focus on the one piece of it. I felt that the finaid side of the UC Regents' decision was missing from most of the news accounts, and that's why I decided to focus on that.

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  4. Donald HellerDecember 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM

    Here are permalinks to the other three op-eds in the series:
    "Student's view of UC protests" - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/20/INE91B2TS6.DTL

    "UC regents president betray California students" - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/20/INFQ1ATDSL.DTL

    "Students seek clout beyond campuses" - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/20/IND51B4RBI.DTL

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