As California’s deep budget cuts smash Sacramento State professors and students with furlough days, fee increases and terminated classes, money woes are also slamming a non-profit firm on campus. University Enterprises, Inc. reported an estimated $8.79 million shortfall in its projected and actual revenue for the fiscal year which ended June 30. This is UEI’s account of last year’s reductions: lease revenue, $3 million; investments, $4.1 million; retail sales, $1 million; copy and graphic, $.... Sethsky thsas 2009-09-03T22:12:05Z 2009-09-03T22:12:05Z

Interesting perception. I was born on the wrong side of the tracks into poverty, but we quickly figured out that the best way to overcome the high cost of education was to join the US services, so lots of folks on my side of town, like me, did just that, and toured Viet Nam for 3 years. I believe the servce still offers higher education benifit opportunites.

thsas 2009-09-03T22:12:05Z Anthony Bento 2009-09-03T21:22:52Z 2009-09-03T21:22:52Z

As difficult as these cuts are, what particularly disturbs me is that they have been preceded by the state's decades-long divestment in higher education. As the costs of education continue to rise, we risk becoming a society that is more economically unequal and rigidly class-based.

Anthony Bento 2009-09-03T21:22:52Z Casey Kirk 2009-09-03T17:57:35Z 2009-09-03T17:57:35Z

I feel like the scariest part of this story is that people don't even blink when hearing huge numbers like 9.5 billion anymore. What's another billion here, billion there? There's no way I could've afforded another semester and graduated just in time. I sympathize with incoming students who are going to have to pay an arm and leg just to get a decent education. Sacramento want the next generation to thrive but no one can even afford an education anymore or get the classes they need. To say it's a sad situation is an understatement. Out of curiosity, are you a former/current student Seth?

Casey Kirk 2009-09-03T17:57:35Z