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California residents have long taken pride in the quality and quantity of their state's higher education and in their willingness to spend vast sums of public money to keep it as good as it is. But when Ronald Reagan became Califor nia's Governor this month, he came face to face with two striking facts: a budget deficit that could reach $400 million in the next fiscal year, and an expensive complex of colleges and universities that consumes about $400 million a year and yet does not charge students a single penny of tuition.* Putting...
...Reagan's budgetry proposals, as outlined by Finance Director Gordon P. Smith at a special meeting of the regents in Los Angeles last week, call for a cut in the state's contribution to the university from this year's $240 million to $192 million-a 20% slash and nearly a third less than what University President Clark Kerr and the regents had sought. To make up the difference, Smith proposed to take $22 million from a special regents' reserve fund and save $5,000,000 more by delaying Berkeley's scheduled shift...
...Share It? Reagan argued that tuition made educational as well as financial sense. At a press conference, he hinted that students might appreciate their schooling more if they had to pay for at least part of it. "There's nothing wrong with young people beginning to have a responsibility to the cost of their education," he said. Moreover, he argued, "there is no such thing as free education. There is costly education, and the question is how you share the cost and who pays for the cost...
...cuts would mean the denial of admission next year to 10,000 new students and 12,500 present ones. Kerr also contended that tuition would only send more students into the 72 community-supported junior colleges, which, in turn, would force local governments to raise property taxes-taxes that Reagan assailed in his campaign as too high already. U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy said he would have to shut down evening extension courses, cut back student health services, delay expansion of medical school enrollment. Noting that faculty recruiting has already been hurt by rumors of retrenchment, he exclaimed...
...members of the legislature should make that abundantly clear to the governor by criticizing his education budget now. Perhaps Reagan's refusal to say anything more about tuition since the uproar will confirm for California voters what some realized in November: their new governor got elected by keeping one eye on the opinion polls and the other on filmed playbacks of his press conferences--and he is likely to continue operating that...