UC business schools try to ease financial reliance on state

<p>Take UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, which is moving to transform its full-time MBA program from state-supported to privately financed. </p>

<p>The proposal, which UCLA approved last week and awaits final signoff from the system-wide academic senate and UC President Mark Yudoff, could be implemented this fall. </p>

<p>Net savings to UCLA: $8.8 million a year, money that will “instead be available to the campus for use in other programs hit hard by state budget cuts,” said the Anderson school’s dean, Judy Olian.</p>

<p>Read more: [UC</a> business schools try to ease reliance on state](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/20/BUCJ1P3QSK.DTL#ixzz1yLMkZvsc]UC”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/20/BUCJ1P3QSK.DTL#ixzz1yLMkZvsc)</p>