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opinion:
our view
The CSU: It's
about time
Students at Cal State
Long Beach should be proud to be members of such a dignified
institution. Many of the professors here are the most helpful,
willing and ?let's face it ? the most outstanding professors
around.
Therefore it's
about time the California State University system schools
are recognized as institutions able to offer an educational
doctorate degree. What ?the CSU is not as prestigious as University
of California to offer such an education?
Is the CSU qualified
to offer such a degree? Based upon our exceptional faculty
? yes.
Later this month,
a hearing will be held and a two-year bill giving the CSU
a chance to offer an electoral doctorate may go into effect
by next year. Even if approved, the governor may still decide
not to sign it.
Hopefully he doesn't
have any animosity towards the CSU. Hopefully he's not one
of those, "I must be smarter because I went to a UC school
where they offered doctorates" type of person.
The main point
here is that CSULB and the CSU schools need this bill to be
passed in order to be recognized as institutions that are
able to contend against the money-grubbing, 200-year-old UC
schools that do offer doctorate degrees.
Since the Legislature
is open to provide educational opportunities, there should
be no problem giving what the CSU needs. Schools are much
like a business, with students as the consumers. Schools offer
the opportunity to never stop learning.
So why is it that
if a student chooses to go to one of the many CSU schools,
he or she is subject to only a portion of the learning scale?
As with a business, students should be allowed to choose where
they obtain a doctorate. People should not be subjected to
buying something at store A because store B is not allowed
to sell that product. It's a free market. Students should
then not be suppressed into earning a doctorate from a UC
school. What's the difference? Are UC schools really that
much better? Hardly. It's all about the money.
CSULB has only
been around for 50 years. That's small change compared to
many of the UC schools out there. Some day, however, the school
with be 100 years old and then 150 years old. Is that when
we'll obtain enough prestige as a university to offer such
a high degree of education? Is there a difference now? No!
If the Legislature
and the governor are unwilling to recognize the CSU, then
it's their own loss and a wipe off the brow for the UC. We
have plenty of outstanding students and professors that can
do the same job if not better. Give the CSU a chance and you
can bet that it won't let you down.
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