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<h4>Tuesday, June 16, 2009</h4>

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<div class="description c_wysiwyg"><p>California's higher-education leaders warned yesterday that they will have no choice but to limit enrollment and class offerings as they struggle to maintain quality in the face of deep state budget cuts.</p>
<p>&ldquo;With this budget today, open access in California appears to be over,&rdquo; California State University Chancellor Charles Reed told a two-house legislative budget committee. &ldquo;The major cuts before you cannot be absorbed without major reductions in enrollment.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A loss of $481 million in state support, as proposed, is the equivalent of a 60,000-student reduction in CSU's enrollment of 460,000 at its 23 campuses, Reed said.</p>
<p>&ldquo;That's impossible,&rdquo; Reed said.</p>
<p>On top of an enrollment reduction already planned for the coming academic year, Reed said CSU probably will have to cut another 20,000 student slots in the following year.</p>
<p>Reed, University of California President Mark Yudof and California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott addressed the committee together, arriving after a sober meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who along with lawmakers is trying to close a $24.3 billion deficit.</p>
<p>Yudof said in a prepared statement that additional enrollment reductions will have to be considered at the 225,000-student University of California, which pared incoming freshmen positions for the coming year by 2,300. Faced with more than $500 million in state cuts, Yudof also said the UC may have to look at additional fee increases for the coming academic year.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We're going to have furloughs. We're going to have salary reductions. We're going to cancel programs,&rdquo; Yudof told the committee. &ldquo;We're going to have to do it all over time.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Yudof said he was most concerned about a proposed $289 million cut that would begin phasing out the state's Cal Grants college-assistance program. That could have devastating implications for lower- and middle-income students, Yudof and Reed warned.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We need to arrest this race to the bottom,&rdquo; Yudof said. &ldquo;In inflation-adjusted numbers .&thinsp;.&thinsp;. we had close to $16,000 per student in appropriated funds in 1990. If the governor's budget were enacted, we will get about $7,700.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, Diana Fuentes-Michel, said the Republican governor's plan to eliminate Cal Grants could keep more than 200,000 students out of classes, according to The Associated Press.</p>
<p>Scott said enrollment at community colleges surged to a record of almost 2.8 million this year as students who couldn't get into UC or CSU schools, as well as the recently unemployed, sought out one of the state's 110 two-year colleges.</p>
<p>Scott also pleaded for discretion to restrict enrollment with another $681 million in state budget cuts proposed. Community colleges are penalized if they don't meet enrollment targets.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We cannot continue to thin our soup by saying you have to continue educating the same number of students with fewer and fewer resources,&rdquo; Scott said. &ldquo;It will erode our quality.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Earlier in the hearing, Steve Boilard, director of higher education for the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, suggested community colleges could raise fees &mdash; now $20 per unit &mdash; perhaps substantially and have the added cost covered for most students by increased federal tax credits.</p>
<p>Scott said he would be willing to discuss a fee increase of perhaps $2 or $3 per unit, but not much more. Community colleges have not had a fee increase in five years.</p>
<p>In contrast, the UC just boosted student fees another 9.3 percent, pushing average undergraduate tuition to $8,720 a year. It is the third consecutive year of increases in UC fees, which have more than doubled over the past seven years.</p>
<p>Likewise, CSU trustees last month approved a third consecutive 10 percent fee increase, to an average $3,354 a year for undergraduates. The CSU also has taken other cost-cutting steps, reducing admissions by as much as 10 percent and freezing new hires.</p>
<p>In response to a question, Yudof said student/faculty ratios undoubtedly will increase, and professors probably will be asked to teach more classes because many lecturers and instructors will be laid off or have teaching assignments reduced.</p>
<p>After the private meeting with Schwarzenegger, Yudof said the governor expressed regret about the impending cuts but offered little hope that they could be softened.</p>
<p>&ldquo;My impression was he was saying this level of cuts was almost inevitable, but he was willing to be flexible,&rdquo; Yudof told reporters after the hearing.</p>
<p>The UC has taken a number of steps to minimize the financial squeeze. University officials decided late last week to cut salaries of some 30 top-ranking executives by 5 percent after freezing executive salaries in January.</p>
<p>About 600 positions have been eliminated or transferred from the UC Office of the President, for a net savings of more than $30 million.</p>
<p>UC campuses, including San Diego and Berkeley, also have initiated layoffs on a smaller scale while leaving dozens of positions unfilled.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, some lawmakers believe the state's higher-education leaders have been slow to respond to the escalating fiscal crisis. The state has issued final layoff notices to 5,000 employees, left thousands of other positions unfilled and moved last week to cut pay another 5 percent, to a total of 14.2 percent, for 235,000 workers.</p>
<p>A state commission also voted recently to cut the pay of state lawmakers by 18 percent, though that will not happen for another 18 months.</p></div> 
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