Christopher Edley Says Colleges Need to Innovate in Face of Budget Cuts

Inside Higher Ed, November 17, 2010 by Doug Lederman
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/17/change

Christopher Edley Jr., the Berkeley law dean who is leading the California effort and evangelized about it at this week’s meeting, aptly summed up the approach many college leaders take when he described his state’s “business model” for higher education as “faith-based fund raising”: “Everybody sits around and holds hands and says, ‘We are so good; surely next year Sacramento will give us what we deserve.'”