Schwarzenegger’s plan for significant budget cutbacks and fee increases in UC and CSU’s budget for 2004-2005 remains essentially intact. Instead of the $372 million cut in state funding for UC he proposed in January, his revised May budget still calls for a searing $352 million reduction, which includes reductions in student financial aid and no cost-of-living increases for UC faculty and staff. The compact promises some relief later on, but it is far from clear whether the state’s finances will allow that. For now, the crisis in California’s public higher education system continues. What is at stake is just how accessible it will remain to all Californians — and whether it will retain its status as the best public university system in the nation, and perhaps the world.

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by the editors, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: May 19th, 2004, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.