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For one thing, its clubs can’t afford to lose access to international talent any more than Harvard University and other institutions of higher education can.

Pressure on households struggling to afford higher education will be intensified by provisions in the budget bill passed narrowly on May 22 by the GOP majority in the House.

“But his overreach, his interference in the operations of universities ... endangers the higher education enterprise of America.”

The 45-year-old Central Coast native served in the Assembly for four years before her Senate campaign and worked in higher education at UC Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara County School Board before entering politics.

He hopes that seeing their effort to protect higher education — no matter how successful it ends up — will show other Americans that they have the power to fight back, too.