What is it about?
The article looks at the way in which the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education combined the principles of excellence and access to create the world's leading system of higher education - and how the principle of access was allowed to decline when community agreement on taxation and financing broke down.
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Why is it important?
California's success and partial failure in its higher education system has lessons for other American states, and other countries.
Perspectives
It was a privilege to study the California system, as the 2014 Clark Kerr Lecturer on Higher Education
Dr. Simon Marginson
University College London
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This page is a summary of: And the sky is grey: The ambivalent outcomes of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12140.
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