<p>I would like a new UC to be established in Lake County or Mendicino county. Among its colleges would be:</p>
<p>A college of Hotel and Resort Management - where students could come to learn how to manage a Hotel or Resort - a west coast version of Cornell’s Hotel School.
Restaurant major would fit in here.</p>
<p>A college of performing Arts - with choices between an emphasis on modern music and stage craft or classical music and theater or the performing arts of our state’s many cultures. </p>
<p>A college of Silverculture - focusing on forestry and natural resources.</p>
<p>Put the University on the edge of a grape farm or along a lake - have the students run a resort, staff it with talent and develop plans to negotiate a peace treaty with nature over the future of our state’s forests.</p>
<p>This is a gap that I think could be filled along with a new college of arts and sciences.</p>
<p>Your idea sounds more like a CC or CSU than a UC. </p>
<p>I'd like to see a special research/think tank college that deals strictly with the issues that affect California. After all, don't we have the 5th largest economy in the world? What are the most critical issues in California?</p>
<ul>
<li>preserving our natural resources</li>
<li>overpopulation and housing</li>
<li>immigration</li>
<li>health, K-16 education and social services</li>
<li>pollution</li>
<li><p>crime and terrorism</p></li>
<li><p>re-engineering our own population to fill<br>
high-tech, high-paying in California
(no more H1B visas or recruiting from other states)</p></li>
<li><p>is California too large?
do we need to divide up the state?</p></li>
<li><p>what will it take to turn around the economy
over the next 5/10/25/50 years?</p></li>
<li><p>how can California generate new jobs each year for
all of our new college graduates?</p></li>
</ul>
<p>We need a politically-free (if that's possible) higher institution or think tank that can address and implement these and other California issues.</p>
<p>Yes. She has written some excellent books both fiction and non-fiction; often about California. I recommend 'Play it as it Lays' , 'The White Album', and 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem', but all her writing is good. Her latest is 'Where I Was From', which is focused on California.</p>
<p>Califonia can't afford not to invest in education</p>
<p>I would want a UC because I want to reduce the pressure on existing UCs so all qualified students can have a choice of a UC education and so we can open our doors to additional highly qualified students from outside the state (diversity is important, and some of these smart people will stay in Ca.)</p>
<p>An institute for California Planning is a great idea if it doesn't exist someplace already and the tranquil yet accessible counties north of San Francisco would be ideal.</p>
<p>It is better to plan for the future than to react to it.</p>