The governor and Department of Finance announced Tuesday that the CSU will be cut by an additional $100 million after state revenue’s failed to reach projections included in the June budget deal.

Brown and fellow Democrats in the Legislature had hoped for a $4 billion increase in tax revenue through the current fiscal year. The budget they passed last summer, without Republican support, was based on a combination of spending cuts, fee hikes and optimistic revenue projections.

This additional cut to the CSU comes on top of $650 million in cuts enacted earlier this year.

In addition to the CSU, the revenue shortfall will trigger automatic midyear reductions for the University of California, Medi-Cal, and in-home support for seniors and the disabled, among others.

All told, the state will impose trigger cuts of around $1 billion.

The trigger cuts do not require further action by the Legislature as the Department of Finance had the final say about whether state revenue met projections or not.

California currently faces a $3 billion shortfall and is expected to face a $10 billion deficit for 2012-13, resulting in a $13 billion gap over the next 18 months.

Following Tuesday’s announcement, CFA President Lillian Taiz issued the following statement:

“Today’s $100 million cut to the California State University system is just the latest in a long series of blows to our public colleges and universities and serves to further undermine the ability of CSU faculty and staff to deliver the quality higher education so crucial to our state's economic recovery and global competitiveness.

Our state’s economic problems have taken a terrible toll on all of the services that are critical to a healthy and prosperous state. We believe the time has come for an honest and fair effort to put the state’s fiscal house in order. That effort must include new revenue.

We welcome serious efforts finally to address our state’s problems with revenues; as a state we must pay for the institutions and programs that make California great.