Gutted Courses, Fewer Majors, Faculty Layoffs: Who Will Feel Cal State’s 8% Budget Cut?

For all the math taught at college, the California State University system is stumped over an arithmetics problem it has less than five months to solve: how to keep operating when the governor has proposed cutting $375 million from its budget.

Without the money, the nation’s largest public four-year university system — enrolling more than 460,000 students — is likely due for a lot of subtraction: fewer professors teaching students due to layoffs and employment contracts that aren’t renewed, gutted academic programs and cancellation of majors that students are already enrolled in.

Gutted Courses, Fewer Majors, Faculty Layoffs: Who Will Feel Cal State’s 8% Budget Cut?

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Such a shame. The Cal State’s were already struggling.

 

In 2024 California was celebrating the completion of an high-speed rail bridge that clearly goes nowhere — part of an $100 billion boondoggle project.
What us more important?