<p>SEA_Tide said: “In my view, the US is made up of 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and other political entities. Each one of these has the power to create their own university systems . . . (a)ccording to the US Constitution and its amendments, the powers not granted to the US Federal Government, which include many retained by other governments, are given to either the individual state governments or the people themselves.”</p>
<p>Well, that is certainly well-written, but glosses over the federal government’s key role in establishing land grant colleges, like Cal. Invoking the Constitution is an overly legalistic way of explaining why the states formed universities. That clause didn’t stop the Morrill Act, and is much less a cause of the decentralization of higher education than it is a different expression of the same cultural bias. </p>
<p>Kei</p>