Senate leaders have had a letter published in the New York Times support of State funding of the University:
“We, the leaders of faculty governance of the 10 University of California campuses, read Deborah Solomon’s interview of President Yudof (Sept. 27) with concern. While we realize that these interviews are edited, we worry that the interview gives an impression that U.C. has given up on state financing. We, too, recognize a trend of definancing public education, but we are emphatically not ready to concede the defeat of California’s exceptional experiment…”
The full letter is available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18letters-t-003.html