<p>Well i guess this plan is supposedly going to go through, what would this mean?</p>
<p>Additional $150 for UC and $150 for CSU, $650 million is the new total cut!! [UCOP:</a> Latest budget plan ‘deeply disappointing’ / UCLA Today](<a href="http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-story-209253.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+NewMediaWireNewsAndPressReleaseDistributionNewsFeed+(New+Media+Wire+News+and+Press+Release+Distribution+News+Feed]UCOP:">http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-story-209253.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+NewMediaWireNewsAndPressReleaseDistributionNewsFeed+(New+Media+Wire+News+and+Press+Release+Distribution+News+Feed)</p>
<p>It’ll mean larger class sizes, less class options =/</p>
<p>It also means that UC and CSU will have to reduce their enrollment levels to live within their new budgets which will mean they will have to cut back on the number of transfer students they can accept from community colleges. CCC transfer applicants will face stiffer competion and it is likely that there will be CCC students, who even though they meet minimum UC or CSU admission criteria, will not be accepted at a public four year university and will not be able to obtain a Bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>I thought those cuts will only be imposed if we (the state of CA) doesn’t live up to the $4 billion dollars in additional profit or whatever? I’m kind of confused as to what’s going on, actually.</p>
<p>Does this mean it will mostl likely take me longer than two years to finish after I transfer??</p>
<p>Getting back to the original point of this thread, the Sacramento Bee had an article this morning saying that both the UC and CSU had announced further increases in tuition for the Fall semester and there is the possibility of yet another round of tuition increases in December. The presidents both systems reportedly said that the increases in tuition were unavoidable in light of the $150 million dollar budget cuts for both the UC and CSU. There is also the strong possibility that CCC tuition will be raised again in the middle of the school year from $36 to $46 per credit hour.</p>
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<p>The most likely effect is increased in-state tuition.</p>
<p>Overly full classes causing delayed graduation does not seem to be as much of a problem at Berkeley, based on the lack of complaints about that in the Berkeley-specific forum. However, some less popular classes are no longer offered, and some classes are not offered in unpopular semesters (e.g. a class that is popular in fall but not spring is no longer offered in spring). What happens at other campuses may be different.</p>
<p>My bf goes to UCR currently and yesterday he got an email saying that the medical school that they were planning on opening in 2012 will stay closed indefinitely. They can no longer get the funds to keep working on it, and these cuts are so bad that if they did open it, it would not get accredited because it is missing important things. Just another way in which these budget cuts affect the schools. </p>
<p>From what I understand, all sectors across California have faced brutal cuts. Environmental agencies, human and health services all took brutal cuts. I’m not defending these cuts, but California seems to be in such a hole I don’t see many solutions. Another would be raising taxes (which i personally am all for) but I know that doesn’t really fly with most people.</p>
<p>In 1998 Drexel University in Philadelphia was in the right place at the right time and had a fully accredited, fully functioning long established medical school plus $60 million for an endowment fall right into their lap but that was a unique event. Establishing and operating a medical school is very expensive and could probably not be done without an initial outlay of at least $100 million which is inconceivable under current circumstances facing public higher education in California.</p>