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California’s cuts to public education budgets are causing more and more university services to rely on private dollars, and less lucrative departments are forced to scramble for a source of reliable funding. While social sciences, physical sciences and engineering regularly rake in big grants, the arts and programs like ethnic studies and student media may be facing budget shortages in the years to come.
“Excuse me, are you Don Rothman?”
We’re sitting at a round table in the back of Lulu Carpenter’s café, where local artwork hangs from shabby brick walls and Edith Piaf’s prominent French drone mixes with the buzz of café patrons. Now that he’s retired, Rothman comes here a lot; he says he likes the way that the intimate space of the coffee shop allows people’s lives to intersect—it’s one of the places where today’s version of democracy thrives.
“The two governing boards reaffirm the long-established principle that state colleges and the University of California shall be tuition-free to all residents of the state.”
Not in accordance with California’s original Master Plan for Higher Education stated above, student fees at the University of California (UC) have almost doubled since 2001.