Word: reagan
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...University of California was a rude rebuff to an excellent administrator. In eight years, he helped build the university into the strongest public university in the country. His departure solves nothing, for no reputable successor is likely to agree to replace him until many Californians, particularly Governor Reagan, outgrow their belief that the state can have an excellent educational system and not collect taxes...
...issue which divided Kerr and Reagan was the governor's plan to cut the university's budget by ten per cent in a general state-wide economy program designed to prevent a tax increase. The Governor and many of the people who elected him want to cut the university and state college appropriation. Yet they want to accommodate an additional 10,000 students--the products of California's population boom--and still maintain the quality of faculties and equipment...
...Governor has suggested collecting $400 tuition per student to fill the gap between what Reagan's budget can provide for and what those 10,000 extra students will need. But by his own figuring this will make up only part of the difference. The deficit will be even wider if Reagan fulfills his promise to award scholarships to all students who can't meet the tuition...
Hung in Effigy. There was an equal ferment at the 18 state colleges, whose $176 million budget Reagan proposes to cut by $6,000,000 (the colleges are seeking a $37 million increase) in addition to imposing a tuition of about $200. Reagan was hung in effigy...
Quite clearly, Governor Reagan had pinched one of California's most sensitive civic nerves. Despite the protests, the Governor is not disposed to back down, and a meeting at week's end with Kerr and some of the regents produced nothing but amicable disagreement. Nonetheless, Reagan's budget faces a careful going-over by Democratic state legislators, who narrowly control both houses, and who have indicated that they intend to fight any major cutbacks in higher education...