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- 09-14-2011
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Op-Ed by John Aubrey Douglass/Los Angeles Times
John Aubrey Douglass is senior research fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley.
For most of the 20th century, California led the nation — and the world — in the number of high school graduates who went on to college and earned degrees. Its famed public higher education system profoundly shaped the aspirations of the state's citizens and, ultimately, their views on what it meant to be a Californian. That system also attracted talent from throughout the nation and the world, and it helped build and sustain an entrepreneurial spirit that shaped new sectors of the state's economy — from microchips to biotechnology. California's higher education system will help define the state's future too. However, the next chapter may be much less positive. The danger signs are numerous: (more...)
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