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<p><a href="csu.jsp">CSU faces more budget cuts </a></p>
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<h1>CSU faces more budget cuts</h1>
<p><strong><font size="3">Fresno State could lose $12 Million in Schwarzenegger's budget proposal</font></strong> </p>
<p><strong>By Rory Sa</strong></p>
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<p align="justify">State Treasurer Phil Angelides toured the Fresno
State winery with K.C.Fugelsang, associate professor of enology,
Angelides's visit to campus Tuesday. Angelides said he disagreed
with Schwarzenegger's education cuts.</p>
<p class="byline">-Photo by Ryan Smith</p>
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<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger revealed his first budget Jan. 9, including
a $771 million funding cut for the state university system. </p>
<p> Undergraduate fees will be raised by 10 percent, graduate student fees
by 40 percent and non-resident fees an additional 20 percent.</p>
<p> “
My budget makes us live within our means,” Schwarzenegger said
in his opening remarks on the budget. “That’s exactly what
I promised during my campaign: that when I became governor of this state,
I will not spend more money than the state takes in.”</p>
<p> The governor’s budget proposal depends on the passage of a $15
billion bond measure, proposition 57, in March’s primary election.
Schwarzenegger has warned that further cuts will be necessary if the
bond does not pass. </p>
<p> State Treasurer Phil Angelides, who toured Fresno State Tuesday as
part of a statewide tour of state college campuses, disagreed with the
governor’s
cuts and with proposition 55. </p>
<p> “
What will build a stronger California economy will not be ‘economic
recovery bonds’ they don’t do anything to help our economy
recover,” Angelides said. </p>
<p> “
What will help us in the long term build our economy in California is
making sure we have a budget that supports the University of California,
California State University Fresno and the community colleges,” he
said.</p>
<p> Officials said the system might be required to reduce enrollment by
about 20,000 students, with Fresno State losing an estimated 1,500 students. </p>
<p> University President John Welty told faculty and staff members at the
university’s spring assembly that Fresno State will lose $12 million
in state funding. </p>
<p> Welty warned attendees that due to the severity of the cuts, he could
not promise them that layoffs would not happen.</p>
<p> “
Things are budgeted so tightly right now that in order to deal with further
reductions next year we have to start this spring, making decisions,” Welty
said.</p>
<p> Welty asked faculty and staff to develop plans on how to deal with
the potential cuts by Feb. 27. The University Budget committee will discuss
and review these ideas, and begin implementing them in early April.</p>
<p> “
I recognize that the budget won’t be passed until sometime this
summer, but we can’t wait knowing that it’s likely we’ll
be faced with pretty severe reductions,” Welty said.</p>
<p> Part of the budget proposal would require a long-term fee policy. Increases
would be tied to per-capita income growth, limiting increases for undergraduates
to 10 percent annually. </p>
<p> “
Students aren’t faced with these dramatic fee increases every few
years, but rather there’s a more gradual increase over time that
everyone can plan for,” Welty said. </p>
<p> However, Welty said that this proposal would bring CSU fees in line
with the higher fees found in other states.</p>
<p> “
We will need to move swiftly to help needy students as these fee increases
are approved,” he said.</p>
<p> The budget would eliminate funding for outreach, Educational Opportunity
Program funding and academic preparation programs from the state’s
general fund. In December, the CSU system ordered campuses to reduce
their student enrollment growth from 1 percent to 3.3 percent in order
to preserve EOP and outreach funding cuts proposed earlier in the month
by the governor’s office. </p>
<p> “
These have been very successful programs for students who otherwise may
not have the opportunity to attend a CSU,” Chancellor Charles Reed
said, in an e-mail to CSU employees.</p>
<p> Reed said the proposed budget will make it more difficult for the CSU
system to deal with $57.4 million in required costs including $35.5
million for faculty compensation and health benefits and $15 million
for insurance-related
costs. </p>
<p> The proposed budget calls for eliminating funding for students who
take more than 110 percent of the units needed for graduation. It also
lowers
the maximum family income for Cal Grant recipients by 10 percent.</p>
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