Budget cuts hit broad swath of Cal State

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from the Los Angeles Times:



Budget cuts hit broad swath of Cal State
The effects are rippling through the university system, touching students, teachers and administrators alike.

By Carla Rivera
November 29, 2009


Rochelle Corros is passionate when she speaks about her college major: Recreation and leisure studies is not just fun and games, she says with conviction. Graduates run city and state parks, recreation departments, hospital clinics, theaters and cruise lines. They help keep kids off the streets.

So the Cal State Dominguez Hills senior was floored by an August letter from administrators telling her that admissions to the program would be suspended and courses slashed as the campus grappled with steep budget reductions.

Corros, 25, had to scramble to replace one canceled class this fall and no longer knows if she will be able to complete her studies by next winter as planned.

"It's really stressful and really frustrating," she said. "Some college students may just want to get by, but others want to plan their education semester by semester and have an eye on a deadline. . . . Now I don't know if any of the classes I need are going to be offered."

Corros is hardly alone as she tries to plan for an uncertain future. These days, the California State University system -- the nation's largest with 23 campuses and 450,000 students -- seems like a ship unmoored. With its lifeline of state funding cut more than half a billion dollars this fiscal year, Cal State, along with other California schools, has been unable to avoid unprecedented student fee hikes, staff and faculty furloughs, and deep reductions in enrollment. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cal-state29-2009nov29,0,4012651.story

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1. So, our government is collapsing.

Is it every man for himself now, or what?