It’s been no secret that public higher education in California is badly broken, following four decades of disinvestment and tuition hikes.
As the June 15th deadline for a California budget approaches, Kevin McCarty finds himself a power broker in a fight over billions of dollars of funding for the University of California.
Click on the right arrow button to go to the next slide. Data and research for this story were provided by Charlie Eaton of U.C. Berkeley’s Department of Sociology and DebtandSociety.org. This is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series.