U. of California Panel Offers a Timid Response to Budget Crisis

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Mark G. Yudof, president of the U. of California, is co-chair of a commission developing ideas for the future of the system.

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U. of California

Mark G. Yudof, president of the U. of California, is co-chair of a commission developing ideas for the future of the system.

The University of California is at a crossroads. Severe cuts in state support have led to sharply higher tuition, reduced enrollment, and a torrent of questions about the future of what has long been the nation's most prominent public-university system. Protests now roll through campuses in Berkeley and Los Angeles with the pomp and regularity of home football games.

In the face of crisis, university leaders assembled a 26-member panel, the University of California Commission on the

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