The ongoing budget deficit could affect the California State University system by more than $250 million if voters don’t approve Gov. Jerry Brown’s Nov. tax initiative.
The Chancellor’s Office has taken a “prudent planning approach” and will not distribute the $250 million to CSU universities, according to a recent San Diego State budget update. “The idea is we won’t know the outcome of that obviously until November, yet we have to budget for the year,” SDSU Provost Nancy Marlin said. Because the elections are in the middle of the fall semester, “you can’t have classes going on and try to cut things,” Marlin said. “So the idea is we’re actually going to withhold it, because, sadly, even if it passes, there’s no guarantee that money will go to higher education. It’s possible there could still be cuts.”
Since 2007, there has been more than $1 billion reduction in state funding, according to CSU Budget Central.
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