March 26, 2012
Pillars of quality: UC at a crossroads
UC’s strength and quality rest on four pillars: a stable funding relationship with the state of California; wise stewardship of resources; leveraging of the multiple strengths of the university; and predictable funding from non-State financial sources, including tuition.
Yet the UC Of 2012, despite its many strengths, is at a crossroads, with two of its four pillars proving increasingly unable to sustain the university’s mission and the continuing quality of its education and research. These issues, presented to the Board of Regents at its March 2012 meeting, are summarized in the short paper that follows.
- Category: FYI, UC budget, UC's options
