Commentary from EdSource by Dick Ackerman and Mel Levine on January 5, 2020
For more than a century, Californians invested in a public higher education system that was the envy of the world. But in the subsequent decades, economic pressures led to declining investments in this system.
In 2008, as the state’s economy plummeted and the nation entered the Great Recession, California’s investments in public higher education nosedived, causing a backlog of deferred maintenance at the University of California, California State University and community colleges.
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The opinions in this commentary are those of the authors. Dick Ackerman is a former California state senator and assembly member from Orange County. Mel Levine is a former U.S. Congressman and state assembly member from Los Angeles. They co-chair the California Coalition for Public Higher Education, which advocates for more investment in higher education.
