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Second Class Universities and World Class Prisons?

By Jonathan Simor

Cal State University Chancellor Charles Reed got it half right yesterday when in a speech to the University's Board of Trustees he blasted the proposed 10 percent cuts being imposed on higher education (and most of the rest of public spending) in Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed budget (read Tanya Schevitz's account in the SFChron). Reed asked the trustees (rhetorically one assumes): "What kind of California do we want? I do think we are heading down the road to funding and building world-class prisons and second-class universities.." We may well be on the road to the latter, and Chancellor Reed is correct to see California's three decade long incarceration binge as a significant factor in the declining state of our universities (roads, bridges, water systems, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).