The California Faculty Association released the following statement in response to the Department of Finance’s action this morning to enact $1 billion in midyear “trigger” cuts. The statement can attributed to CFA President Lillian Taiz, a professor of History at Cal State Los Angeles.

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 members 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.

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