Cal State trustees begin budget cuts process

01-26-2011

By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC

For the first time since Gov. Jerry Brown announced $500,000 million in proposed cuts to the California State University, trustees of the system began the budget-cutting process Tuesday at their scheduled meeting in Long Beach. Cal State won’t close the funding gap by raising student tuition next year, said CSU Chancellor Charles Reed at the meeting. Instead, he added, the university will target its largest expenditure, compensation of its employees. "It’s not going to be pretty, I can tell you that. It’s going to affect a lot of people. About 84 percent of our budget is tied up into salaries and benefits, so we’re going to have to downsize the CSU and so that’s going to be the most painful part," Reed said. (more...)

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