As an elite institution, could Berkeley benefit from increased autonomy from the UC system?
A. I have urged the Office of the President and President Yudof to allow the individual campuses to optimize their local situations as much as possible, which means devolving as much control to the campuses as possible. Take financial aid, for example. We have played a leadership role here at Berkeley in understanding the challenges faced by middle-class families. So instead of having the financial-aid system controlled by the Office of the President and having some redistribution of funds, frankly, I would like undergraduate-student financial aid entirely determined at the campus level. That is one example. Q. What about fee structures? A. In Access and Excellence I floated the idea that we should allow individual campuses, within some range defined by the regents, to set their own fee policy. I soon discovered that this was quite controversial. My own view is that at this time in history, when I think it’s likely that we are going to see fees going up at a fairly rapid pace, that it’
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