CSUB budget cuts will hurt sports, student fees and staffing - Lisa Pinson, Bakersfield Express

CSUB President Horace Mitchell unveiled a proposal Thursday to cut the college’s budget even deeper than it has already been cut. Plans include raising student fees by 10 percent, reducing staff, suspending winter commencement, and eliminating four sports programs among other programs and services for the 2010-11 school year. It is no secret that California has been affected drastically by the downfall of the economy. Because the state has to reckon with a budget deficit of nearly $20 billion throughout the next eighteen months, college campuses are having to make cuts that affect personnel, faculty and students alike. CSUB Bakersfield is no exception.