Eric Schmidt urges Californians to support UC

1997 CS Distinguished Alumnus Eric Schmidt (M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ‘82), the former executive chairman of Google, has penned an article for the Sacramento Bee titled “You don’t need to be the head of Google to know what needs to be done about the UC.”  In it, he describes how public funding for the University of California has shrunk as student enrollment has surged, and why Californians need to support public education.   “Budgets are moral documents – they reveal our true values,” he says. “Putting more resources into higher education, sustaining what the state’s founders started, is not only an economic no-brainer – it’s the right thing to do.”