UC Berkeley asked to absorb $80M of Brown's $500M cut | California Watch

UC Berkeley asked to absorb $80M of Brown's $500M cut | California Watch

The budget targets – which university officials emphasize are provisional – are exposing a long-simmering issue in the UC system, which is just how equally the 10 campuses should be treated. On an even more fundamental level, it raises the question of how, or even whether, the state can afford to support 10 world-class research universities, including the opening of a new one in the Central Valley.