Check this out: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I started at Irvine less than a decade after it was founded and received a fabulous university education. My tuition? About $600 per year (called "fees" not tuition), all of it abated by a California state scholarship. What a concept: affordability.
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The Promises and Compromises of the University of California
I grew up in a neighborhood manufactured by the University of California, Irvine. It felt like a utopia for academics—until the university forsook its mission of serving the public.
