July 31, 2009
State budget cuts have forced UC Irvine to eliminate five water sports: men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s rowing and the sailing program. UC campuses must absorb more than $300 million of UC’s state funding gap.
July 31, 2009
State budget cuts to UC, CSU and the nation’s largest community college system threaten the future of a generation of students, according to the LA Times.
July 29, 2009
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office summarizes the actions taken by the Legislature and the Governor in the budget package signed on July 28. Read the report to see the magnitude of cutbacks all state programs will suffer in the months ahead.
July 29, 2009
UC campuses are collectively absorbing 40 percent of the more than $800 million state funding gap UC is facing. At the July Regents’ meeting, chancellors testified about the impact the cuts will have on faculty hiring, class size, number of courses offered and delivery of services to students. Read more…
July 28, 2009
In response to the new state budget signed today, UC President Mark Yudof says, “We’re doing all we can to minimize the impact of these cuts on the quality of all we do. At the same time, we’re acting now to chart a new course for the future. This pattern of annual cuts in state funding is unsustainable.”
July 28, 2009
The governor slashes $656 million to restore a reserve fund to the $85 billion compromise spending plan. California has to live within its means, he says.
July 24, 2009
After nearly 20 hours of deliberations, lawmakers have approved a budget plan with assemblymembers excluding two controversial parts – offshore oil driling and gas tax diversions from local governments.
July 24, 2009
The California Senate approved a budget plan early Friday morning. The Assembly is still debating a package of bills to close the state’s $26 bilion deficit.
July 23, 2009
Lawmakers have agreed to delay talks on how to cut $1.2 billion in prison costs until August. That puts the budget resolution back on track, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
July 23, 2009
Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, talks about his proposal for an 11th UC campus online in a Q&A with The Chronicle of Higher Eduaction. Edley is a member of the newly launched Commission on the Future of UC, which will be exploring new ways to deliver education with improved cost-efficiency and excellence.
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