"The danger is that as public support for the school declines, it will lose more and more of its public character. Substantially higher fees for incoming students would be the norm, and more and more students from out of state and out of the country (who can afford to pay the full freight of their education) would be recruited.
"This would most likely hurt students from middle-class families more than poorer ones. Those kids are caught between the less well-off, who are helped by a variety of financial aid programs, and the wealthy students, whose families have no problem paying for a first-class college education."
Bob Herbert in The New York Times describes the problems facing the University of California.
And the University's Robert J. Birgeneau and Frank D. Yeary in The Washington Post plead for federal support.
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