Budget cuts hit broad swath of Cal State
These days, the California State University system — the nation’s largest with 23 campuses and 450,000 students — seems like a ship unmoored. With its lifeline of state funding cut more than half a billion dollars this fiscal year, Cal State, along with other California schools, has been unable to avoid unprecedented student fee hikes, staff and faculty furloughs, and deep reductions in enrollment. Many campuses are planning for historic program reductions that could greatly narrow academic options, alter the career plans of thousands of students and, ultimately, further harm California’s shaky economy, experts say.
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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.