Letters to the Editor: Attending Cal State instead of UC is a privilege, not a disappointment

Letters to the Editor: Attending Cal State instead of UC is a privilege, not a disappointment (via latimesopinion )

. However, I disagree with the implication that these students would be greatly lowering their standards by attending a California State University campus.

Also, there are 23 Cal State schools, so students can often live in cheaper or more convenient locations.As someone with a UC degree who taught for many years at a Cal State school, I feel no need to apologize for our bachelor’s and master’s programs.The writer is a professor emeritus of computer engineering and computer science at Cal State Long Beach.

The UC system was once tuition-free; in the late 1960s, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan changed that. Further, our state is beset with a level of unaffordability at every level, and we pay for this with extreme poverty, homelessness and outward migration.

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