The Governor’s budget proposal would reduce the state general funds allocated to the CSU to $2.29 billion in 2011/12, 12.5% less than the 2010/11 budget act.
This proposal would reduce state support for the CSU dramatically. However, since the the CSU Board of Trustees have increased CSU student fees so aggressively in recent years total funds available to the CSU system would be 4.5% lower.
The chart to your right, also available as a download, shows how the budget proposal for next year compares with the past few years.
As the data show, total funds proposed for CSU in 2011/12 exceed total funds in 2009/10 by 7.4%.
While CFA has long opposed student fee hikes, it is important to note that because of these hikes the system’s operating budget has not been reduced to 2009/10 (the furlough year) levels.
