Are University of Minnesota and University of California, Irvine both public universities?
University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UC Irvine offers 80 undergraduate degrees and 98 graduate and professional degrees. The university is designated as having very high research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in fiscal year 2013 had $348 million in research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation. UC Irvine became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996, and is the youngest university to hold membership.
Experimental College of the Twin Cities The Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCOtc) is an experimental college in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that provides peer-based and free education to the wider community. It was started by Macalester students in the Spring of 2006 in response to a policy change that reflected the shrinking access to higher education nationally and the neo-liberal model in the US and around the world. EXCOtc is currently expanding to other college campuses and community groups, both of which can create their own EXCO chapters. A second chapter was created at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) in the winter of 2007, as a continuation of protests in support of a strike by the workers of the campus's AFSCME union who demanded a living wage. Protesting students believed that their school's administration had abandoned the principles of the public land-grant institution: equal access, social justice, democratic education. So, they decided to devote their energies to form a new chapter of EXCOtc, as a university that would enact those ideals.