<p>Probably wouldn’t have read that article if it wasn’t from The Economist. (although i’d say the quality is lower than what i usually read from there.)</p>
<p>This argument’s been said time and time again. I do think it’s important to rediscuss though, especially as the election nears.</p>
<p>I do however think its a bit disingenous to compare two private universities to the dozens of public ones (i.e. the UC and CSU systems) since, arguably, only two of them are their peers. I also thought it was funny how the author states that USC has the most international students; he does this while omitting that Berkeley is generally regarded as the best public university in the United States, and that UCLA is the most applied to university in the nation.</p>
<p>I got the impression from the article that the author held Berkeley and UCLA in a high regard. While they’re certainly not being gutted as the other UCs are, the budget cuts have effects on those campuses too. Here’s a recent article that was posted from an interview with UCLA’s CFO</p>
<p>[UCLA’s</a> chief financial officer makes sense of budget complexities / UCLA Today](<a href=“http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cfo-explains-budget-237352.aspx]UCLA’s”>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cfo-explains-budget-237352.aspx)</p>