That’s $1 million down, $31 million to go. The campus expects to have to cut that much from its budget as the entire California State University system prepares to lose at least $500 million in state funding for next year. "This is not fun. This is not the way anyone wants to spend their time," said San Francisco State Provost Sue Rosser. Reducing the number of colleges from eight to six "is an attempt to prevent layoffs and to be more efficient," Rosser said, noting that the proposal preserves all academic departments, from accounting to urban studies. But keeping them all may not be possible going forward, Rosser said.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: February 16th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.