"California isn’t the seventh-largest economy in the world by accident," Zingg said. Its higher-education master plan developed in 1960 "accommodated the baby boomers who went on to create Silicon Valley, the health-care industry, the entertainment industry" and all the other economic engines that drive the state. The investment has paid off many times over, he said. Cutting higher education would be foolish, he insisted. He urged attendees to become active, to join the newly formed Alliance for the CSU, to join the student-led "March for Higher Education" April 21 in Sacramento, and to do whatever they can to let legislators and the governor know they want more money put into higher education, not less.
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by Robert Speer, The Chico News and Review.
Posted: April 10th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
CSU Trustee member Bob Linscheid called the cuts "criminal." "Do we want to have first-rate prison and second-rate higher institutions?" he asked. But the cuts aren’t inevitable. Susan Green, chief of the local chapter of the California Faculty Association, said its important that students and others who support higher education join the fight to lessen budget impacts. "Our message is simple," Green said. "Higher education is part of the solution for a troubled economy."
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by Heather Hacking, The Chico Enterprise Record.
Posted: April 9th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Fixing problems in the world’s largest higher-education system has proved difficult for California’s policymakers, both because of the sheer size of the system and because community colleges rarely are popular political causes. Cutting elementary school budgets brings cries of protest; cutting community college funding barely elicits a whimper.
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by Matt Krupnick, The Vacaville Reporter.
Posted: April 7th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Those who miss the deadline for entitlement grants, must compete for a smaller pool of grants for which the state has been spending about $57 million a year. Only about 1 of every 6 eligible applicants for these so-called competitive grants gets one, according to the Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit advocacy group in Berkeley. The governor’s budget would halt the awarding of new competitive grants…
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by Kathy M. Kristof, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: April 6th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
California State University campuses could be forced to reject 10,000 qualified students, offer fewer courses, put off maintenance and lay off lecturers if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts for the system become reality, activists said Wednesday… If the worst-case scenario happens, the CSU system would face its largest cut ever.
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by Leslie Griffy and Dana Hull, The San Jose Mercury News.
Posted: April 3rd, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
In January, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed 10 percent cuts to state programs to combat California’s $14.5 billion deficit. CSUB could lose $5.5 million, according to figures presented at the meeting, and campuses will not be able to increase enrollment. The state school had anticipated about 10,000 additional students that would not be accommodated under the governor’s plan.
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by Tara McLaughlin, The Bakersfield Californian.
Posted: April 3rd, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget calls for reducing the total CSU budget by about $386million. Cal Poly would lose about 5percent of its funding, or about $20million – more than the College of Agriculture’s total annual budget, according to a statement from the university. Deans for various Cal Poly colleges said the proposed cuts will hurt not only students, but also the state’s economy.
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by Monica Rodriguez, The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Carlsbad, and vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee, criticized spending in the 109-college system, but he was unable to say whether
Advertisement community colleges had enough money to do their jobs. "I wish I could answer that question clearly," he said. Community-college advocates often express frustration that term limits force legislators out of state government just as they start to understand higher education’s challenges.
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by Matt Krupnick, The Argus.
Posted: April 1st, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Diverse campus factions came together to speak against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $386 million budget reduction proposal for the 23-campus university system. President Alexander Gonzalez told an audience of 350 at California State University, Sacramento, that the proposed cuts would hurt students and the local economy. "It is about access, it is about affordability, it is about the future of the state," he said.
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by Bill Lindelof, The Sacramento Bee.
Posted: March 19th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
While we stay stuck, the world passes us by. Our schools aren’t geared to educate the workforce needed in the new economy. The University of California is losing out in the competition for top graduate students.
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by Mark Paul, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: January 20th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
