In an intimate meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday afternoon, a handful of University of California students said greater funding of higher education would help pull the state out of its recession and asked him to back away from a proposal to reduce the Cal Grant program that covers university fees for needy students… Schwarzenegger’s January budget proposal is relatively kind to the state’s public universities. While he proposed cuts in every other area of government, he suggested increasing funding to UC and CSU by 12 percent. But the governor’s budget calls for suspending the so-called "competitive" Cal Grant, which would eliminate scholarship funding for up to 22,500 students. And it would freeze remaining Cal Grant payments at the current level, meaning students would have to pay the difference every time fees go up.

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by Laurel Rosenhall
, The Sacramento Bee.

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