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What the latest survey of Californians on higher education didn’t ask: a lot

November 20th, 2011 | 2 Comments | By 

(This commentary first appeared in TOP-Ed.) The most interesting things about the latest survey of Californians’ views about the state’s system of higher education are the issues it didn’t address. The survey, conducted by PPIC (the Public Policy Institute of California) and released last week, found – again – that a great majority of us believed that the state was underfunding its public colleges and universities. But – again, again – it also found that we weren’t willing to pay higher taxes or approve of higher tuition to make up for it. So what else is new? Community college fees remain low PPIC pollsters didn’t make clear to those it questioned that while all the attention was going to the rising tuition at the University of California and the California State University (CSU), fees at … Read entire article »

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