Jerry Brown Proposes Inadequate Higher Education Budget

Nonetheless when it comes to higher education over thirty years of inadequate funding continues to take its toll and Brown’s budgets have at best only held the line, if they have not made things worse. This week the governor released his initial proposal for the 2018-19 fiscal year and it was more of the same… CFA proposed an increase of $422.6 million, which would fund a 5% increase in enrollment. Last year the system turned away one in ten eligible students — some 31,000 people — owing in good measure to inadequate funding. Brown nevertheless proposed an increase of just $92.1 million for the CSU, which amounts to 1.4 percent of the university’s operating budget.

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by Hank Reichman, Academe Blog.

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