Opinion: “Higher education is more than a privilege or even a right – it’s a necessity”

A June 15, 2015, column in the Los Angeles Times asserts that, “Anyone concerned about America’s future generations has to be dismayed at the condition of public higher education.”  Here’s an excerpt:

Government disinvestment in public universities is producing “a dystopia of inequality in which community and state colleges are starved, and flagships serve up vacation resorts for the rich who can afford to attend,”economist Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute wrote recently. “This is a problem, because public colleges and universities educate around 70% of all students.”

Read the column on the Los Angeles Times website.