UC President Mark Yudof testified today before the state Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education to outline the impact of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget — which would cut $500 million in state funding to the UC — and lobby committee members for decreasing the proposed cut to the university. "Adjusting for inflation, state investment in UC students is less than half of what it was 20 years ago," he said at the hearing. "If trends are not reversed, we will soon approach the day when we will be forced to tell qualified California high school graduates that there no longer is a place for them at a UC campus." According to Yudof, the university currently operates on the same budget as during the 1998-99 fiscal year — while serving 73,000 more students.

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo, The Daily Californian.

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