UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will give up government cash that pays 20% of the school’s bills. It will find private money to fill the gap. Some statements from school administrators show a realistic commitment to great education.
?The UC system is arguably the greatest public university system in the world,? she [Dean Judy Olian] said. ?But we?re not going to keep it that way with the old model.?
?If the state wants to assure its future leaders [that it can educate them] it either has to pay for it…or it has to allow us through our own resourcefulness to do it ourselves.?
That is a message Tom Ross and the UNC Board of Governors might take to heart as North Carolina’s public universities prepare their budgets.
