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This is another LA Times article submitted to the net without permission...
I hope nobody on the staff there gets netnews.  Anyway, I will postpone
comment on this material except to say that when Bobby Inman and his MCC
money were trying to decide between locating at UC San Diego and UT Austin,
Uncle Duke, our dear governor, tried to persuade Inman that UC was not
going down the drain by claiming that he planned to increase funding to
UC by as much as 10% next year.  Inman weighed Uncle Duke's word and took
his cash to Texas...  Smart boy.

Donn Seeley  (ex-) UCSD Linguistics Dept.  ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdamos!donn


From the LA Times, July 27 1983, Pt. I, p. 3:

INCREASES IN FEES FACE STUDENTS AT UC AND CAL STATE

by Anne C. Roark, Times Education Writer

     Students attending the University of California and the California State
University systems this fall, rather than professors or administrators, will
bear the brunt of cuts in Gov. George Deukmejian's budget for the state's sys-
tem of four-year colleges and universities.
     Under the final budget approved Thursday by the governor, students at Cal
State system schools will be asked to pay an additional $230, bringing their
total annual fees to $1,380.
     The Cal State system board of trustees has not yet approved the fee hike,
but the board's finance committee has been authorized to act for the entire
board at a special meeting scheduled for Monday in Long Beach.
     Overall, the nine-campus UC system will receive $1.056 billion, 9.4% less
than the Legislature approved and 2% below last year's spending level.  The
18-campus Cal State system will receive $906.1 million, 9.2% below the
Legislature's level but 4.8% above last year.
     At San Diego State University, that translates to a cut of $2,567,000,
money that was to have built laboratories and faculty offices inside the
university's old library building, officials said.
     "The real losers are the students," said Patrick M. Callan, director of
the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
     But employees of the two four-year systems also face a struggle under the
new budget.  In some cases, faculty members will be denied promotions.  Main-
taining buildings and facilities properly will become an increasing problem.
     After strongly supporting Gov. Deukmejian all year, Cal State Chancellor
W. Ann Reynolds said that she is "shocked and dismayed" at the governor's
final budget.
     "California's position as a state that prizes knowledge and skills, and
opportunity and access to higher education has been dealt a deep and serious
blow in the Budget Act of 1983," Reynolds said.
     "Fundamental changes in our system must be made in the next few days.
Fees will rise to levels that will be unacceptable for low-income students,
and graduate students will face additional financial burdens.  Nine hundred
faculty will be denied promotions..."
     UC Vice President William B. Fretter said: "In the spring, when the
governor announced additional proposed cuts in the budget, we said the univer-
sity was at a crossroads.  The quality of the university is now at risk, as is
access to it for the students of this state.  The people of California need to
know that.
     "The governor perceives these cuts to be the appropriate solution to the
state's current financial problems.  He has, however, stated that he expects a
major improvement in the next year and that adequate funding should be avail-
able for the university then.
     "If he is correct and translates into action his encouragement that we
seek significant additional funding next year, then we can survive this year
with temporary measures...
     "If the improvement does not happen, we will have no alternative but to
make additional program cuts that will inevitably affect the quality of the
university and the numbers of programs it can offer to prospective students."
     Specific budget cuts for UC include $20.7 million the Legislature had
budgeted to cover some effects of inflation, $7 million for academic promo-
tions and staff merit raises, $6.2 million for replacement of instructional
equipment and maintenance, and $14.7 million for such student support services
as the registrar's office.
     Because the governor did not include adequate funds for faculty merit pay
increases and UC is committed to providing those increases, the university
will have to make program cuts in other areas, UC officials said.
     The budget cuts also defer the state's entire 1983-84 contribution to the
UC retirement system, which amounts to $101.4 million.  That sum is to be
repaid to the retirement fund over the next 30 years.
     As a result of the $14.7 million cut in student support services, the
$167-per-year increase in educational fees, which was approved on a contingent
basis by the UC board in March, will finance the student service program and
will provide additional funds for financial aid that will be needed as a
result of the increase in fees.
     In the Cal State system, the governor cut the instructional budget by
$3.2 million and eliminated more than $1 million that he originally included
in his proposed budget for faculty promotions.
     For both systems, the governor imposed a 5% increase in graduate student
fees, above the increase proposed for undergraduates in the budget.