State funding cuts during the recession still shortchanging Cal State students

The Los Angeles Times reported on July 19, 2016, about “State funding cuts during the recession still shortchanging Cal State students, officials say.”  Here are excerpts:

State budget cuts have left California State University with about 19% less in funding to spend per student compared with pre-recession years — compromising efforts to fully address student needs, university officials said…..

This issue will continue to be a sticking point. Although enrollment has increased by about 20,000 since 2008, officials have not been able to make room for everyone who wants to attend one of Cal State’s 23 campuses.

Cal State Chancellor Timothy P. White spoke to the issues:

“That is the nexus of our dilemma,” White told the trustees. “In the absence of resources, and you look at the difficult decisions we had to make to live within our means again this year, you see that we end up disinvesting in those support services that enable the very students that we ourselves are under the gun to get their degrees sooner rather than later.”

Read the full article on the Los Angeles Times website.