Blog Archive MBA News UCLA Anderson Considering Going Solo

Blog Archive MBA News UCLA Anderson Considering Going Solo According to a recent  story on National Public Radio  (NPR), the Anderson School of Management at UCLA has proposed relinquishing state funding, which accounts for 6% of its $107 million budget, so as to be more autonomous and financially independent of the University of California. State funding can be unpredictable, making it difficult for the administration at Anderson to plan ahead and make decisions about important mattersâ€"such as the price of tuition! Michael Malenitza, president of the student association at Anderson, told NPR that students generally do not know the price of tuition until weeks before classes start. Those against the proposal to forego state funding worry that such a shift in resources will also change the schools public mission. When you are raising private dollars, youre focused on whats of interest to the donors, says Scott Jaschik, editor for InsiderHigherEd.com. And that may be different, in some cases, from the broader interests of the state, which ar e theoretically represented by the legislature. Share ThisTweet News University of California Los Angeles (Anderson)