The U.S. Department of Education has premiered a database on its web-site comparing college costs of all kinds. Of 32 public, four-year schools in the United States with the steepest tuition increases from 2007 to 2010, 22 are CSUs, with tuition rising 35 percent at Humboldt State at the low end, to 47 percent at San Diego State… As California’s economy tanked and the state became more miserly toward public universities, CSU has steadily raised its tuition. The new state budget reduces CSU’s allocation by $650 million to $2.2 billion, with the threat of another $100 million cut next winter. CSU’s soaring tuition "shows that our state, more so than most, is divesting from higher education – no secret, right?"

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 7th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Here, Democratic lawmakers were cutting $1.3 billion from the University of California and California State University systems, while Republicans were crowing that they had stood firm against Brown’s tax package. Republicans got zip from the $129 billion budget

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by Dan Morain, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: July 3rd, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The closure of a department founded by the father of the hydrogen bomb is another in a wave of cost-cutting moves rapidly changing the face of UC Davis. The College of Engineering closed the department of applied science Friday… UCD began hacking away at its budget again at the beginning of the year based on a projected $107 million shortfall, including an estimated $73 million state budget cut. The state budget signed Thursday, however, included an additional $150 million cut on top of the $500 million that the University of California system had been bracing to absorb. UCD’s share of the additional state cut is estimated to be $22 million.

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by Cory Golden, The Davis Enterprise.

Posted: July 2nd, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Student leaders expressed disappointment about their soaring tuition and said that Sacramento is putting the brunt of the state’s budget problems on them. A decade of increases has more than tripled tuition to about $11,000 a year at UC and $4,884 at Cal State, not including room, board and other fees. "Ultimately, this again represents the ongoing disinvestment in higher education in California," said Christopher Chavez, outgoing president of the Cal State Student Assn. "What it comes down to is that students are expected to pay more and to get less." … At UC, the $650-million reduction represents a 21% drop in state funds.

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by Larry Gordon and Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: June 30th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

With the University of California system set to go through $650 million in cuts, there is concern many top UC faculty members may be looking to move on to other schools. Some are referring to it as a “brain drain,” and three highly regarded University of California, San Diego scientists are leaving for Rice University in Houston. “It’s such a great offer that it’s impossible to decide not to go,” said physics professor Herbert Levine. Levine and his colleagues, physicist Jose Onuchic and biochemist Peter Wolynes, are leaving UCSD.

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by staff, ABC 10 News.

Posted: June 29th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

Some students don’t even call the increases "tuition" anymore, but tax increases. They say state lawmakers are deceptive in claiming to have passed the budget without raising taxes. "Every time we raise taxes on students, the Legislature is off the hook – because we pay the tax, but they don’t make that clear," said Steve Dixon, a Sacramento State University graduate student in economics who serves on the CSU Board of Trustees. At UC, the gradual shift from state to student support suggests the public university is becoming privatized. "It is fair to begin wondering whether it is appropriate to continue calling the University of California a public university system," said Alfredo Mireles, a UCSF nursing student and member of UC’s Board of Regents. For the first time this fall, UC expects to take in more from tuition than state funding.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: June 29th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

This budget is a great disappointment for the California State University. It is a shame that the legislature was unable to reach a compromise that would have kept taxes at current levels and prevented further massive cuts to the public’s universities. This budget will cut the CSU by at least $650 million — nearly one-fourth of state operating support — and the effects will be felt throughout our 23 campuses and among our 412,000 students. The proposed ‘trigger cut’ of another $100 million is especially problematic because the trigger won’t be pulled until classes for our last semester of the fiscal year have already started and it is too late for campuses to respond in any practical way.

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by Chancellor Charles B. Reed, CSU Budget Central.

Posted: June 28th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

One of the things that alarms me most about the disinvestment from the state is just how rapid we

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by Devin Kelly, The Daily Bruin.

Posted: June 27th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

"I think (he’s) quite right that the typical focus on auxiliaries and dorms is a red herring," Wellman said. "Most of the savings (he) imagines come through different use of faculty and faculty productivity – that’s the meat of it

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by Erica Perez, California Watch.

Posted: June 27th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.

The evidence is overwhelming that college is a better investment for most graduates than in the past. A new study even shows that a bachelor’s degree pays off for jobs that don’t require one: secretaries, plumbers and cashiers. And, beyond money, education seems to make people happier and healthier. "Sending more young Americans to college is not a panacea," says David Autor, an M.I.T. economist who studies the labor market. "Not sending them to college would be a disaster."

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by David Leonhardt, The New York Times.

Posted: June 25th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.