Garamendi visits Chico State
Photos by Gary D. Brune copyright (c) 2008
The budget situation for California State Universities is serious as Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi visits with President Paul Zingg and invited guests at Chico State's Free Speech area on a fact-finding visit earlier today as two sets of protesters silently express their points of view.
I asked the Lieutenant Governor later what he would tell Bill Gates in light of the proposed budget cuts and Gates seeking to import technically educated people from India in order to get cheaper labor than the CSU system can produce.
Garamendi said that he needs to help the CSUs get the funding/investment they need to produce technical students in California alluding to a conversation he had with an official from Seagate Technologies.