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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (241931)	1/12/2014 1:05:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541503

That is the heart of the problem alright--the cut back in public funding for public universities ( and not just red states, Calif. is non that list also), but is it not a legitimate question to raise about Administrator's taking the tuition subsidy question into their own hands--and in effect hiding the result? California's problems were of the same origin, though others here know much more than I do about this. But they stem, it's my understanding, from Republicans refusing the fund state government. Now, thanks to Jerry Brown we are seeing some steps in a better direction. If you really wish to hear serious grumbling about the number of administrators, their salaries, and their perks just hang out for an hour or so with an faculty group over coffee. You'll get quickly bored with it. Of course, there are too many and paid too much. But that's barely a small sand pebble on a beach part of the problem. So long as state legislators don't value public education, whether k-12 or university, or whatever, we are going to continue to deny educational opportunity. And doing so will bring much more expensive consequences down the road. As the Nevada administrator said. IMHO whenever it's the WSJ being quoted you want to throw the baby out with the bath water. The facts are what they are. The fact never "are what they are". The only exist within a conceptual frame. And, in this case, political frame. So long as one drops the legislature's responsibility for refusing to fund public education from the conversation, you get to the distraction fostered by folk like the WSJ. Put it in the proper frame.