If the governor's tax measure is defeated, CSU's state funding would fall to $1.8 billion, the lowest amount of state funding the university has received in 17 years.
Governor Brown’s May Revision of the 2012-13 state budget proposes a $250 million trigger cut for the California State University if his tax measure is rejected by voters this November. With voter approval of the tax measure, the CSU would receive an essentially flat budget with $2.06 billion in state funding. “We very much appreciate the governor’s hard work to avoid further direct cuts to higher education despite the steep growth in the size of the state deficit. Nevertheless, all Californians should be concerned about the serious long-term damage to student access to the California State University that is posed by the $250 million trigger cut,” said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed. “Combined with last year’s $750 million cut, no easy options remain. It will be extremely difficult to avoid impacts to program quality at our 23 campuses or impacts to access for students and the ability to serve them, with long-term consequences for workforce development and job growth in the state. The November election will be critical to preventing this.”
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