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The Campaign for College Opportunity
held Telephone Briefings
to Announce the Findings of "Cumulative Impact"
Released on April 16, 2008
Cumulative Impact:
How cuts to higher education and the Cal Grant program in the recent past, today, and in the near future will affect access and opportunity for California's students
by Tim Gage and Matt Newman
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More about the proposed budget cuts and Higher Education in Calfornia:
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About this new study:
Higher education in Calfornia would suffer a second major blow in less than six years if the state adopts the sweeping cuts proposed by this year's budget. The University of California, the California State University, and the state's Community College system have not yet recovered from cuts that stemmed from the dot-com crash earlier this decade, according to this new study meant to aid lawmakers and the public as they grapple with balancing the state's budget.
If these newest proposed cuts are adopted, there will be a compounding effect over the next years as enrollment funding could force UC and CSU to halt their existing student enrollment at current levels - turning away thousands of 10th through 12th graders who have worked hard to meet requirements.
For the state's Community Colleges, who have a mandate of open enrollment and already operate with lean budgets, these cuts could significantly increase class size and reduce services that support student success.
Moreover, budget cuts like these force California's higher education institutions to rely on unpredicted hikes in student fees - stop gap budgetary measures that take students and aprents by surprise.
All of these changes, according to the study, come at precisely the time when the state needs to be enrolling and graduating many more students to meet the demand of a more educated workforce.
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