The governor’s proposal, released last week, awarded the UC system an additional $142.2 million from the General Fund in 2014-15, a 5 percent increase from last fiscal year. Meeting with The Sacramento Bee’s Editorial Board, Napolitano did not explicitly call for more funds, but said: “We’ll have a discussion about what else can the university do and what other needs that we have.” “We all know state funding had to get slashed (during the recession). I can appreciate the difficult decisions that had to be made,” she added. “But we’ve leveled off now.”

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by Alexei Koseff, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: January 15th, 2014, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.