Higher education is in decline. California is in decline

Higher education is in decline. California is in decline. A survey report published on the 20th showed that California's higher education system is in decline. The number of students who can afford college...

Higher education is declining. California is in decline. A survey report published on the 20th showed that California's higher education system is in decline. Fewer students can afford college, enrollment is declining, and support from state governments is shrinking. The report "Consequences of Neglect" produced by the Center for Advanced Leadership and Policy Research at Sacramento State University points out that California, which once dominated the country with its three-tiered public university system, has lost its leading position in areas such as affordable tuition, high school graduate preparation, college attendance rates and investment in higher education. "This report shows that California is resting on its past laurels and unchanging past policies, and the consequences," the report said. "California is far from leadership in higher education performance, which has been tracked for a decade by national education leaders. We are average at best and on the decline." The report also found that California has the lowest per-student state funding for college students in the nation. Tuition and other fees have increased faster than the national average. The college-going rate among high school graduates increased from 53% to 58% between 2003 and 2007, but fell back to 53% in 2009. California ranks 41st in the nation in the number of college bachelor's degrees earned by every 100 high school students six years after graduation. Most worryingly, each generation of California’s working population is becoming less educated than the one before it, a trend that will have catastrophic consequences. Report co-author Colin. Moore said: "We must realize that higher education is a public good. If we fail to realize this, fewer and fewer high-tech companies will be willing to develop in California in the future. The lower the income of the people, the lower the taxes. These will have a huge negative impact on society as a whole."