Public universities bear brunt of cuts in latest California state budget plan - Adolfo Guzman-Lopez & Steven Cuevas, KPCC

The Democrats’ latest state budget, which was passed on Tuesday, would slash $650 million each from the California State University and the University of California systems. Those reductions, which come on top of hundreds of millions of dollars the state cut from the systems in recent years, might force the shortening of the academic year, and keep UC Riverside's new medical school from opening. Officials with California’s public universities called the latest budget proposal “disappointing” because they’ve already endured significant spending reductions. Administrators have balanced recent Sacramento funding cuts by forcing students to pay higher tuition.