Here's an Associated Press article examining how the California budget cuts are affecting higher education. It was published yesterday.
From the story:
The UC and CSU systems will receive about 20 percent less funding than they did two years ago.
"It's a really dramatic shift to what was once one of the most progressive higher education systems in the world," said John Aubrey Douglass, a higher education expert at UC Berkeley. "It takes a long time to build these institutions, but they can be ripped apart very quickly, and then it's really hard for them to recover."
The UC system, which has about 220,000 students, is raising student fees by 9 percent, reducing freshman enrollment by 6 percent and cutting at least $300 million from the budgets of its 10 campuses.
Enrollment at CSU will be cut by 40,000 over the next two years.
Last week, CSU employees agreed to take furloughs to help offset the university system's $584 million shortfall.
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