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IHE reports that the Governor is proposing increased funding (contingent on tuition freezes). I'd be curious to hear from readers "on the ground" at UC and Cal State campuses how things are in terms of finances.
I attended a UC about ten years ago and I continue to coach there. I also attend a graduate program at a Cal State, so my perspective is the anecdotal consensus I get from the students I coach, teach, and study with.
Horror stories of students being forced to take a completely different major because they couldn't get classes were rare when I was an undergraduate, isolated "friends of friends." But that is definitely no longer the case. I regularly hear these types of stories now. Of course a less impacted major like philosophy will attract more of these cases, but the message is fairly clear on both campuses: decide your major early, take summer (and now short winter) term classes, and don't be surprised if you stay a fifth year. It seems worse at the Cal States, but that's just based on the comparison of two schools.
Here is Chris Newfield's take on the governor's proposed budget for UC. The takeaway is that even with the 5% increase in funding, the state's portion of the UC budget is still 14% below where it was in 2007-08.
The link did not come through in the previous comment. Newfield's analysis of the governor's budget for UC is here:
http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2014/01/austerity-premises-refuted-governors.html
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