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Tom Campbell, a long-shot Republican candidate for governor, former state legislator, former congressman, lays out his plan for increasing public college enrollment without increasing public spending. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He taught economics at Stanford U and was dean of the UC Berkeley business school. 

Tom Campbell Q&A Pt. 1: Taxes and fixing the economy, Sept. 17, 2009
Part 1         http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/17/tom-campbell-qa-pt-1-taxes-and-fixing-the-economy/22063/
Campbell Q&A Pt. 2: More college students, smaller classes, Sept. 20, 2009
Part 2         http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/20/campbell-qa-pt-1-more-college-students-smaller-classes/22165/
excerpt:
The method I would use for adding funding to CSU and UC is to go to market rate on tuition, but increase the Cal Grant at the same time. And guarantee, which we presently don’t, that you can get enough courses to qualify for a Cal Grant, because you have to be a full-time student.

That way, those who could afford it would be paying for it. The tuition would go to the school and to the system to be a source of revenue that we haven’t used. But it would not be unfair to folks of low income. The Cal Grant is particularly beneficial because it doesn’t operate as “you qualify or you don’t” but on a sliding scale depending on your income.

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The Economist magazine and the Lewis Center of the Luskin School of Public Affairs sponsored a forum at UCLA on April 26 on governance problems in California. You can see a video below (which runs about an hour and a half). Yours truly is at minute 45 to minute 51 and at later points. The forum centered on the Economist issue of that week which focused on California and tended to put the blame for current dysfunction in Sacramento on direct democracy – the initiative process. Earlier, former UCLA Chancellor gave the 2011 Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg lecture in which he outlined his…

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Chancellor: UC Berkeley becoming a federal university

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Duelling PEB Reports

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When the Post-Employment Benefits (PEB) Task Force finished its deliberations, it published a majority and minority report. See earlier postings. UCOP responded to the dissenting report with a rebuttal. The dissenters replied to that response. In turn, UCOP responded to that response. Depending on when you looked at the UCOP webpage on PEB, you may not have seen the full back and forth. So here is the menu as of today: The full report of August 30 is at http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/ucrpfuture/files/2010/08/peb_finalreport_082710.pdfThe minority dissenting report of August 30 is http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/ucrpfuture/uncategorized/files/2010/08/peb_dissenting_082510.pdf The UCOP response to the dissent of Sept. 14 is at http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/ucrpfuture/files/2010/09/peb_dissenting_response_0910.pdf…