Adolfo Guzman-Lopez covers higher education for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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Lawmakers have recently tried to push the university system to enroll more students from California. The end result is more carrot than stick —The hot issue at the meeting was a politically unpopular proposal to increase UC student tuition to make up for a state funding shortfall. The current face-off between UC policymakers and the state legislature is complicated by the divisions within UC leadership.
“Any head of a system has three bosses,” said USC emeritus education professor William Tierney. “One of them is Sacramento, and that's the governor and the legislature. A second is the faculty and students of the specific campus, and the third is the state and community."
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