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Financing California

Ideas from the 14th Annual Travers Conference

Few people would say we should stop educating our children, stop providing medical care to the poor, or stop sending criminals to prison. Yet California’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit presents us with the prospect of doing just that.

With this special issue of PolicyMatters, we are taking the innovative policy proposals of leading experts from the University of California’s annual Travers Conference to the halls of the California State Capitol. And at PolicyMatters’ October 2011 conference, Governing California: A Discussion at the Capitol, we will build upon the findings of the Travers Conference, engaging policymakers, professors, students, and advocates in a collaborative discussion about the critical and pressing issues facing California.

-Dean Henry Brady and Prof. Chris Ansell

IN THIS ISSUE OF PolicyMatters


CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford
Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Mark A.R. Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs

HIGHER EDUCATION

Charles B. Reed
Chancellor of the California State University system

F. King Alexander
President, California State University, Long Beach

Dennis P. Jones
President, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Steve Weiner
Founder, Campaign for College Opportunity
Retired Executive Director, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities

William Zumeta
Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

K-12 EDUCATION

Kim Rueben and Habib Moody
The Urban Institute

Gary K. Hart
Former State Senator
Former Secretary, California Department of Education

Norton Grubb
David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley

HEALTH CARE

Tom MaCurdy
Professor of Economics, Stanford University