<p>@Derek, to be privatized is to mean that the UCs will ONLY receive money from private funds, and no more public money.</p>
<p>Why is this dangerous? Just take a look at the top 20 school rankings and see what the only public school is on there – Berkeley. For a lot of people in the world, Berkeley is the only place where you can get a top notch education from an affordable university. How did Berkeley’s affordability happen? Because Berkeley was publicly funded.</p>
<p>People are afraid that the more Berkeley receives from private funds and the less it receives from public funds will eventually result in Berkeley becoming a completely privately-funded school, and its status as a “public school”, and its affordability, will be over.</p>