<p>For anyone who thought if was just Florida struggling with State support there's this:</p>
<p>"As record numbers of applications collide head-on with deep budget cuts, on Nov. 20 the nation's largest university system announced plans to decrease its student body by at least 10,000 students and to cap enrollment at all 23 of its campuses".</p>
<p>LINK: Under</a> Financial Stress, More Colleges Cap Enrollments - TIME</p>
<p>That article seems to focus more on the Cal State system. What about the UC system?</p>
<p>I read somewhere that they are asking all the UC employees (including faculty) to take off one day out of the month without pay.</p>
<p>Looks pretty dismal at the UC system also: </p>
<p>UC Regents approved a fiscal emergency plan that includes employee furloughs and campus cutbacks to close an $813 million state budget shortfall.</p>
<p>Specifically, most campuses are deferring at least 50 percent of planned faculty hires. UC Berkeley, for example, expects to reduce faculty recruitment from a typical 100 positions a year to 10. Already, 724 campus staff members have been laid off systemwide, with more expected. In advance of these cuts, the UC Office of the President already had cut annual costs by $67 million and reduced payroll by one-third.</p>
<p>LINK: [University</a> of California - UC Newsroom | Regents approve fiscal plan, furloughs](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/21511]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/21511)</p>
<p>CA is supposedly a fiscal disaster. I guess its easy to spend other people’s money.</p>
<p>They are in a MAJOR disaster. The government can’t pay back people’s state tax return so they are handing them registered IOU certificates! This craziness actually started a trading market for these IOUs because Californians don’t believe they will get their money anytime soon.</p>
<p>I think this will make it more difficult to get into UF in the future and may be make our degrees more prestigious.</p>