Colorado's budget: What's left to cut? - Michael Booth, The Denver Post

Cutting elsewhere has become so painful that only four of the "Big Five" are relatively safe. The fifth, higher education, faces huge losses again next year when federal stimulus money runs out. Lawmakers do not seem inclined to steal money from K-12 or Medicaid in order to bolster Colorado's colleges. The solution will likely be eliminating caps on tuition increases, and schools like CU, CSU and Colorado School of Mines may test limits above the previous 9 percent ceiling to fill state losses. "We're collectively transferring a large part of the burden from the public to the paying family," said CSU President Tony Frank. "That's a huge policy decision, done by fiat, and done piecemeal."