<p>The bad news is it included a 9 billion dollar cut in the budget for colleges and universities and public schools. (Out of a total budget cut of 15.5 billion, to curtail the 24 billion dollar deficit.)</p>
<p>What is next for California state colleges and universities? Stay tuned......</p>
<p>Any university with money (and sense) is surely going to be looking to lure away some of the best and brightest faculty from the UCs.</p>
<p>Would tuition at the UC’s rise, noting that cost for in-state students is around 3-7,000 dollars ( not including room and board etc…) while cost for in-state students of Michigan pay around 9-13,000 dollars ( not including room and board etc…).
(Well I guess 3-7,000 dollars qualify more for Florida universities, but California universities are not too far off from that range either)</p>
<p>Where the snow crowned Golden Sierras
Keep their watch o’er the valleys bloom,
It is there I would be in our land by the sea,
Every breeze bearing rich perfume.
It is here nature gives of her rarest. It is Home Sweet Home to me,
And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh
For my sunny California.</p>
<p>But what will happen to the happy cows???</p>
<p>i think budget cuts from years past combined w/ the economy has encouraged the cheese industry to downsize the ad campaign :(</p>
<p>anyways, i doubt california’s university system will become any less prestigious…look at the umass system…it has very little money, but people still think it’s really good (amherst at least)</p>
<p>^^^^Bad example siglio21. UMass is not a very strong system. You might be confusing UMass Amherst with Amherst College.</p>
<p>i hope wealthy private schools (mine specifically) ;), take the opportunity to lure away those talented and famous scholars from Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, etc :
hehe</p>
<p>i mean…how awful!!</p>
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I didn’t say the system was good…it’s just that a lot of less informed people think that it’s just like all those other prestigious schools in the Northeast. A few budget cuts doesn’t ruin a university’s reputation for a while.</p>
<p>Not many people will be leaving the top UC campii. This is a haircut, not an amputation. Many schools have dealt with worse and had no lingering problems. UC is a destination, not a waystation.</p>
<p>i think the plural of campus (in the way you use it) has only one “i”</p>
<p>Buzzzzzzzzz off, nobody cares. It’s a made up word.</p>
<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p>League of California Cities Condemns Proposed State Budget as Reckless Ponzi Scheme</p>
<p>SACRAMENTO Californias legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have agreed on a proposal to balance the state budget with illegal raids of local government gas tax, public transit and redevelopment funds, according to recent court decisions and a legal analysis obtained by the League of California Cities, as well as a loan of local government property taxes that is unlikely to be repaid. By relying on illegal mechanisms and fund shifts, this budget resembles a Ponzi scheme that the League of California Cities condemns in the strongest possible terms.</p>
<p>The classic Ponzi scheme works on the “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” principle. Money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses. Meeting in secret, the Big Five have put together a state budget that relies on unconstitutional seizures of local taxpayers funds or loans from local taxpayers to finance todays state operating expenses. This recipe for disaster passes off responsibility for repayment or complying with future court orders to reimburse local governments to future governors, legislatures and taxpayers.</p>
<p>As they have in the past, courts are expected to enjoin the state from implementing its unconstitutional raids of local gas tax, public transit and redevelopment funds. Further, given Californias negative fiscal outlook, the League believes it is illusory to maintain that the state will be in a position to repay the borrowed property tax funds in a few years.</p>
<p>League President and Rolling Hills Estates Mayor Judith Mitchell reacted strongly to the budget proposal. Cities across the state have suffered deep revenue losses and acted responsibly to cut spending by laying off staff, shutting public facilities, and eliminating programs. While some at the state level will try to pass this proposed state budget off as a major breakthrough, city leaders know it only passes the buck and the problem to the future. As an elected official who took an oath to protect and defend the state constitution, I am embarrassed that any state officials would propose a blatantly unconstitutional budget that promises to fail within weeks of its adoption.</p>
<p>This budget proposal is a reckless Ponzi scheme because it depends on unconstitutional seizure of billions in local revenues that the voters dedicated to specific purposes and questionable borrowing provisions, said Chris McKenzie, League executive director. It also puts governments most important responsibilityprotecting public safetyat risk because it takes local property tax revenues that should be used to patrol the neighborhoods of the cities of California and to respond to the many fire, police and emergency medical calls that cities in California receive. We have assured state officials we will see them in court the day after a budget is signed if it contains illegal provisions.</p>
<p>Established in 1898, the League of California Cities is a nonprofit statewide association that advocates for cities with the state and federal governments and provides education and training services to elected and appointed city officials.</p>
<p>When this whole California budget crisis first came to light, I read somewhere that some of the top professors earn over a million per year and some of the office staff are in the high $200’s. If this is true, they should have tightened their belts a while ago. There is no way the people of California will continue to accept these high salaries coming out of their tax dollars.</p>
<p>Hope2GetRice:</p>
<p>It was your university that lured former Chancellor of the UC system, Daniel Coit Gilman away hah. </p>
<p>Wasn’t it the Cal Berkeley that lured a ton of Professors from Cornell (a nice and wealth northeast ivy) when it was founded? Gilman was also a former Yale professor.</p>
<p>The cycle goes round and round… To the West, from the East. To the East, from the West…</p>
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Really? If I say “Hey, I heard * is going to UMass” it isn’t going to get much respect up here.</p>
<p>I don’t know about you, but if I told everybody I know that I was going to UMass Amherst, they would all praise me. </p>
<p>Alaska and Massachusetts are very far away…</p>
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<p>Only if they are confusing UMass Amherst with Amherst College. There’s nothing wrong with UMass Amherst, but its not particularly praiseworthy, and there are hundreds of equally fine schools – and many finer – between Goleta and Amherst.</p>
<p>^^^My point earlier.</p>
<p>thus MY point: as long as UMass Amherst stays in operation, people will think it’s prestigious, like Amherst College</p>
<p>as long as UC Berkeley stays in operation, people will still think it’s prestigious</p>
<p>a label sticks on you for a long time</p>
<p>(i have to admit it thgh…the university of massachusetts is not the best example)</p>