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Wiki Post 2 by Nastassia Ayala

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfjK6RZHzhg

I believe that there are many different ways in which colleges can be funded. First of all, the military and prison take up the majority of the government spending. Why are we giving money to make the criminals more comfortable and create more weapons for the military when we already have plenty? Although having a secure prison system and military is important, college can be one of the most important things a person experiences. It can be a pathway into a lifetime career and an opportunity for a person to become more open-minded. If students didn’t have to pay so much when they are attending college, I’m almost positive that adults who attended that college would be more willing to donate to the campus. This is because they wouldn’t be in such a massive amount of debt and most people are aware of the importance of a great college education. I found a YouTube video that supported my idea of less money for prisons and more for college education. The video was a speech Arnold Schwarzenegger recently gave about how he thought more funding for college was a necessity. He wants to change the current statistics regarding government funding for college versus prison which are now college-7% and prison-11%. The government used to spend 10% on college funding and only 3% on prison funding. Why have our priorities changed and why haven’t more people realized how important a college education is? I believe that if college tuition was less expensive and funding for it was higher, this would keep many people out of prison because it would be easier to receive an education.

WIKI POST #2 by Jocelyn Fiset
[] This youtube video shows a protest march made on the San Francisco State Campus against the California budget cuts for education. It was organized by a group called Student Unity Power, which appears to be a very influential group on campus. The video starts out showing speakers that present the issues at hand. One thing brought up that I didn't really think about was how the government will give more money to the banks to bail them out and to the war effort, yet won't give money to help students get college degrees. This makes me mad because I think, even though banks and funding for wars are very important, that the education systems need the money more. They also explained that in 1968, there was a similar walk out that occurred that was very effective, and they're hoping that it will have equal effectiveness. This protest and ones that are occurring at college campuses all over the state show that the students genuinely care about their education. This goes against some of the common misconceptions that college students are only in school to party and have a great time and they don't care too much about their education. This video completely debunks this myth. These students are very angry and they have become very involved in trying to get more federal funding so they will graduate in four years and make enough money to pay off their student debts. All in all, this video shows that students recognize the enormity of this situation and they are trying everything they can to change it.

WIKI POST #1 by Kasie Gasparini (the post #1 under this post is actually post #2)
[] This article titled "Prison vs. education spending reveals California's Priorities", is about the spending in California for prisons vs. education. After researching the spending in California, I have found a lot of website that talk about where our money is going. A lot of our money is going to prisons. "By the 2012 to 2013 fiscal year, $15.4 billion dollars will be spent on incarcerating Californians, as compared to the $15.3 billion is will cost to educate them." 2012, that is the year I am supposed to be graduating Chico State. Myself, as well as many of my peers, will be at Chico for at least another year paying tuition out of our butts and attempting to get all of our credits so we can get out of college and start working off our debt. In my opinion, kids who do not have a goal in life, who can't afford college OR who have gone to college but are living in the slumps trying to pay off their debt or more prone to dangerous behavior. If we better our education system it will result in more educated students who have a chance to afford college and reach their full potential. Hopefully resulting in less crime because after a while crime rates will lower since more people will have the opportunity to be in school. We have come to the point where we have to make a change and it has to be the right change or else we will reach the point of no return.

WIKI POST #1 by Kasie Gasparini
. [] This "Budget Crisis Report Card" is an article with the speech of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O' Connell that he gave in May 2009. Every article I have read has shared the same similar statement "We need to get California back on track"...well DUH! The reason why I chose this article over a few other youtube videos and articles I read was because, I truly felt that Jack O'Connell is at least heading on the right track. I watched a youtube video of Chiang, the California State Controller and he mentions how we have to spend more to get ourselves out of this pickle. Really?...I mean really, spend MORE? I don't have the slightest idea how that would help? How about taking money that we are spending frivolously and putting it towards our education! Jack O'Connell tells suggests less spending in order to get us out of debt and able to save our school system. Students and teachers are being jipped and it is wrong. We are the next generation and in order to help our society out in the LONG RUN we need to start making some serious changes very soon! I think one thing we need to establish in our heads right now is that spending more money is not going to help the situation.

Wiki Post #1 by Jocelyn Fiset

====The article that I read is titled "California State University Faculty Most Say No To Furloughs" by Peter Phillips. It was very informative of the current furlough situation on CSU campuses. It explains how there is a 10% paycut for instructors and they have to take two furlough days a month. It's saying that these furloughs were made so there wouldn't be a 9,000 instructor layoff on CSU campuses. The author points out, while being very biased, that none of these budget cuts would even be necessary if the government would just tax the more affluent members of the community how they taxed them 15 years ago. What I found most interesting about this article, however, was the responses that the article was getting. A lot of them were explaining how there are, indeed, layoffs going on anyways. There seems to be arguments about how there would be budget cuts even without the recession. There seemed to be a lot of arguing back and forth about this issue, which made it hard to take a particular side. This article, and the responses made to it, is very interesting and gives me a lot to think about. It raises the question of if, first of all, furloughs should be continued. It also raises the question of exactly what is the causation of the budget crisis. It also raises the question about the possible solutions to the budget crisis, at least for the sake of education. All in all, it was very thought-provoking. Here is the link to the article: [] ====

Warren Bower

The text I chose is about why states tend to cut back on school spending over other forms of spending. In the first two paragraphs the article gives two reasons as to why this may be. First it says, “Higher education gets singled out… colleges and universities can collect their own revenues in the form of tuition… Second, college students aren’t the states neediest population.” While this may be true that current students are far from being needy in the sense that are not eating from soup kitchens an living on the streets it is a reason why some people have trouble with debt. If this attitude that we can fend for ourselves and we will pay for schooling if we have to continues there will be less people going to major universities. The author uses a number of graphs to represent the budget spending in California and other states. In California it is, as you would expect. The higher education budget always falls under the other expenditures. While it mimics the flow of the budget it is usually significantly below. The article goes on to explain that these trends are new to the last decade. Before that the higher education budget always held steady even in recession. The article goes on to explain that students will be “priced out” of higher education. If I were a college I would be very worried for my future. As the digital generation grows up, the generation that is more than ok with spending many hours a day in front of a computer, I would be worried that this and future generations would look for alternative means of education. As the current generation grows up with the knowledge that they may not be able to support their 2 or 3 kids though college they may look to create a more comprehensive online school. As UC’s and CSU’s get more expensive I would expect enrollment in digital colleges to grow. While it may be a while before this has an impact on traditional colleges I have no doubt it someday will force a change in higher education.

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Adrian Torres Vera My document is a budget update by President Paul J. Zingg. In this update President Zingg states that the state faces a 12.4 to 14.4 billion dollar deficit for the 2010 year. The President then states how the Governor blames the deficit on poor revenues and legal challenges. With the deficit at hand President Zingg points out how the Legislature will focus all their attention to fiscal matters and ignore the problems that Universities and colleges are facing. President Zingg also states that the CSU Trustees have a budget that will fund the increase in student enrollment and an increase in our fees. President Zingg also states that he believes that the state is not supporting its colleges, and that the state believes that the quality of higher education is expendable. I believe that President Zingg really believes that we deserve a high quality education, and that the state is not providing the level of education that we need. The President also addressed that there are some stories in the media about colleges turning down well prepared potential students. President Zingg also states how he wrote a letter to Chancellor Reed, explaining to him that a drop in the universities enrollment would cause a significant negative effect on the region. The Chancellor made and adjustment to the enrollment reduction for CSU Chico; lessening the enrollment reduction. The President also stated that despite the hardships that our university is going through its students still provide community service, like setting new records for the fund-raiser for St. Jude. This proves that even though the state is giving up on its universities, the students refuse to give up on what they consider right. President Zingg makes the points in a straight forward yet caring matter. I think that anyone interested in the changing shape of higher education would find the article as a prove of how caring and devoted faculty members are to their students.

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//My article was expressed strongly that are current situation with the budget deficit is a bad one. There is no current solution in sight if anything the budget deficit is only going to become worse. Unfortunately the revenue projects issued did not help the deficit at all. The author seems quite certain that things are only going to become worse “California’s budget deficit will reach 20.7 billion U.S. dollars over the next 18 months, according to report from the state legislative Analyst’s office.” Since there no budget solution in sight state lawmakers is forced to cut more state programs. Which means tuition for students is just going to become more expensive. Already student tuition has already been raised by thirty-two percent. There not much more abuse students can take its coming to the point where students are no longer going to be able to afford school. The only students who are going to be able to afford school are students which come from affluent families. The gap between the rich and poor is widening further. As the author states in the article “classes from kindergarten through the community college, the budget is 18 billion dollars less than what been projected a short time ago.” Not only is the state university system is being hit hard, but the education has a whole is being hit hard. This is very unfortunate because education is not being regard highly as it once was. There are places the state law makers can cut the budget from, education should be left alone. If more people read this article I’m sure they would be alarmed by the statistics and would act on the behalf of the education system.//

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//Wikipost 1 By: Shannon Cummings// //This article is about the Furloughs that are happening across the CSU and UC systems. It states that in order to deal with the budget cuts for the 2009-2010 school year we have to have furloughs two days a month which is saving around nine thousand positions in the CSU and UC systems. It states that the faculty is being forced to bailout the government by taking a ten percent pay cut. California has been created as cutting taxes for the wealthier people or large businesses and corporations. It states that half of the states income comes from taxes paid by the working people and the lowest paid workers were hit with the taxes the hardest. Although that the lower paid people were hit with the hardest taxes, the corporations ended up with the good end of the deal only paying ten percent of the state budget. The person who wrote this article wants Unions and the working class to say no to the furloughs and find another solution such as pushing taxes on the wealthy. This article I would say is leaning more towards the left in the political spectrum, and doesn’t feel that furloughs are beneficial. They feel that the rich are being treated like royalty, and the middle and lower classes are being treated in a different and negative way. This should be helpful to others because it has the point of view as someone against furlough days, and most of the students that are attending college feel that the furloughs need to be stopped and another solution for the budget cuts need to be found//

//Wikipost #1 Christine Miyake // // __http://www.calstate.edu/pa/News/2009/fee-increase2-2009.shtml__ //

//In this article it discusses how the California State University Board of Trustees is dealing with the financial crisis that is facing universities today. They are increasing student fees, they even understand that it is a "burden" on the students. It seems unfair that students have to pay more when they do not see the benefits. Though the revenue from the increase of fees will go towards financial aid and the rest will go towards the $584 million budget deficit. It sounds like the students who do not receive financial aid or any grants are the ones who are paying for the other students who are receiving the financial aid and grants. So the students who do not have the aid and grants do not see the immediate benefit of the increase of fees. Also the Board of Trustees approved the furlough days that are mandatory for teachers to take, in doing so that they would save save money that is needed to pay teachers and to ensure the maximum amount of jobs. With the increase in fees and furlough days, it is working toward keeping as many teachers and staff members as possible even though universities are still short of professors. Even though many people do not agree with furlough days, the benefits they have outweigh the cons. Yes students are paying more and have to self-teach themselves more than in the past but without the furlough days students would be losing out on more education if there were no furlough days. The article also discusses how over the last few years they have had to make enrollment cuts. The enrollment cuts have been to increase space availability for new and continuing students.//

//Wikipost #2 Christine Miyake // // http://www.collegecampaign.org/ //

// Article is a new report by the state Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO), it is about how the Master Plan is being carried out and falling short. In the article it states that having more educated people in the economy will make it stronger. I agree that if we could have more funding for education instead of cutting back on the number of people who can enroll our economy will benefit greatly. Without an educated populace our economy will we filled with more crime and there will be less qualified people for jobs. There would be more people in debt because they would not be able to get a good paying job without a higher education. It is so frustrating that there continues to be state budget cuts to higher education, it isn't fair to the younger generations to come. WIth the state budget cuts the students are continuing to pay more for their education and seeing less of the benefits directly. To the students eye they are paying more and getting less of an education because teachers are having to cut back on the information they teach in class and have to rely on the students to self teach and do the extra work outside of class to fully learn the information they cannot teach during class. //

//Wikipost #1 Isaac Chavez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJSvIffTaI//

//This video is made by the California State University of Fullerton students back in 2008. They talk about everything we have been discussing in our English 130P class. They start off saying that our governor was proposing three hundred and eighty six million dollars of budget cuts to the Cal State system. We have all agreed in our class and so have they in the video about the fact that this is supper wrong for so many reasons. For one, we are the future of our Nation, if we get less educated what will that mean for this countries potential. I agree with one of the guys in this video when he states that educating the youth of this country is the best investment that this country can make. This video also describes what is going on with graduate students and how hard this budget cut would have been which is being done now. Grad students have to juggle a full time job and a full time career as a student with tuition being raised every year more and more. Soon some graduate students might not be able to handle the level of stress that comes with two careers, “school and work full time,” which might and probably drive those students to quit school and just work full time. This is happening now and without at least a bachelors or a masters degree those students might not get that good job they will need to support their family in the future.//

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// This text is about how California’s budget crisis seemingly will just keep getting worse as time goes on. In fact this article states that the State Legislative Analyst’s Office says that the state’s projected revenues and spending will be three times the 7.4 billion estimated four months ago. The article also goes into the budget cuts themselves. It says that the lawmakers have no other solutions besides to keep cutting state programs, even with the serious impact that the cuts have on state and local governments, along with the 32% increase in California State colleges. The very key part of this article though, is where it explains how hard it is for governor and the legislature to be able to cut from elsewhere because of pressure from local governments because many programs are closely related to daily life for Californians. The author makes the points of how if the budget crisis keeps worsening then more and more money will be getting cut from very key programs like education, they also make the point that, even though it is all their fault for not being able to agree, the legislatures are finding it very hard to find other programs to take money from besides education because of local governments’ pleas. The author makes these points by giving the reader statistics from the State Legislative Analyst’s Office. This could be useful to people who are interested in the changing shape of higher education because it gives ways they could get involved // // like helping Berkeley lobby for a change in the way the legislature votes. //

//Wikipost 1 Martin Morales// //[]// // Gale Holland’s article //CSU may scale back enrollment, //was published in 2008 around the same time budget cuts and furlough days were being announced. The main point that the article stresses is that the amount of freshman being accepted into the CSU system will significantly decrease. I would say the author is right. The main reason for this is budget cuts. The enrolment of freshmen would decrease by 10% but increased they raised tuition (fees) by 30%. Some state schools are trying to do what they can to help students by accepting the applicants that meet their criteria and live around the school. Like many other students and faculty I disagree with the way that the state is handling their financial problems. As soon as a financial struggle comes by they want to dig their hands into one of the most important investments of our future. “Cal State officials said the cap is a better option than increasing class size or dropping course sections ... Many students could not enroll in the classes they wanted and dropped out, bringing enrollment figures down.” This quote is referring to the economic struggles the state had in the 90s. This seems really similar to what is currently happening in addition to increased tuition. What will happen to future students? Especially to those who have achieved so much in their academic career but were just not as wealthy as others? They went their whole lives being told that if they worked hard it would all pay off and they could have a future. And I was always told to go see the teacher if I had questions or concerns. Now that furlough days are in effect I can’t go see my teacher on a certain day. And what if that day is the only day I have. I do have other responsibilities and classes to attend. If they don’t give an adequate educate to the present generation how do they expect individuals to fix this problem if we really are the future.

Wiki Post #1 by Ayaka Miyaji [] According to the author of “California’s higher education system could face decline”, the UC and CSU system will deflate the value of their education due to financial issues. As the authors pointed out, tuition has rapidly increased in the past few years, and how the colleges were in the past and present. The authors also said there are many problems that will get worse if we do not do something about it. For example, if we do not make a move, there will be more furlough days, or reductions in classes which we need to graduate, otherwise we will be in college longer. Also, more teachers are facing the dismay of layoff, and the use of the university’s faculty is becoming limited. Basically, the authors discussed the anxiety of decreasing the educational quality in the article. Most faculties are aware of what is happening in the educational system so they are very anxious about how they are going to offer higher education when the situation gets harsher. This article is intriguing because the authors analyze the status quo of what is going on in the university system. The reason causing this sticky system is the budget. The authors gave information about the California State budget cut for the UC, CSU and the community college. This could be helpful to others because this tells us how the financial issues are profound and will get more serious, as well as affect the quality of higher education. In addition, it tells us that some students have to give up attending college due to financial distress; faculties may also have to leave their workplace.

Wiki Post #1 Elizabeth Watters []

this article talks about what the government is doing to California schools. Schools in the state have hard decisions to make. In the past, the many budget cuts the state made weren't so obvious to people. But these days, cuts and changes are becoming far more drastic, and hard to ignore. Schools are even beginning to eliminate sports teams and music classes. The article i read talks about a budget cut that was made the thursday before it was written that will force colleges to cut 7.4 million. I think the budget cuts the government is forcing schools to make is ridiculous and it needs to stop if I'm ever going to graduate. According to this article that i read, titled "California schools struggling with budget-trimming decisions", the government is delivering a stimulus package to California schools. This stimulus package supposedly will contain seven hundred and eighty-seven billion dollars. To me, an 18-year-old college student, this seems like a great deal of money. Although this might be a large number written down on paper, according to the article, it is nowhere near enough money to cover the losses that the schools in California have experienced. My thought on this is, if the stimulus package is obviously not going to contain enough money to replace the amount of money that was taken away but exactly the same people who are attempting to give it back, why don't they just give back what they took? I have been unsure in the past about exactly what was going on with budget cuts, etc. in California schools. Lately, after reading many articles such as this one, I have become interested in what the government is doing and how it is affecting us. This article was very interesting and i would like to read more on this topic.

Wiki Post #2 Kirstyn Monsibay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjLeqneLGaU

I found this video on youtube and it talks about the changes in funding for college. It talks about how much college tuition has rose in the past years for private and public schools. This video relates to most of our readings because it talks about students that have to take out student loans end up with lots of debt in the long run and takes them many years to pay off. It also says that parents that are paying for their child's college have to think about their retirement plans in the future. The video also talks about how nowadays once your child is born you have to start slowly saving for their college education. They are talking about how there are many loans out there for everyone, but thats not all true. I applied for financial aid jut to help out my parents a little, but because of my parents back round and the money they make it wasn't much of a help. Although my parents work and have a nice house in a good area doesn't mean they can afford to pay for my college for 4+ years. Its hard in times today where not many people have a job and then having to pay for student college education. One of the final points they talk about in the video is that the average time to payback a loan is about ten years but some take much longer than that.

Wiki Post #2 Kyle Nelson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGZoNtiRtFk This video of Chancellor Reed I wasn’t sure on what to expect, whether he would be representing the state, the faculty, or the students. The video is on Chancellor Reed speaking about the CSU budget for 2009-2010. Through watching it, it seemed like he was pointing his fingers to the state the whole time so the decisions weren’t because of him. He reported that there would be a 10% pay cut in all employees through the use of furlough day. He also reported that they had to cut enrollment up to 44,000 students and close enrollment for the winter and spring semester. Also he added that there would be an increase in tuition ‘fees’ of up to 20%. Which I thought sounded odd because from what I heard it came out to an increase of 32%. He also said that a third of the fee increase is set aside for financial aid for students. Instead of spiking the tuition an extra 9 or 10% why don’t they just reduce the fee, since that third will go on into financial aid, which most aid is in loans, so it just puts more debt in our hands? I feel that Chancellor Reed is doing what he can under the circumstances that we are in, with a decreasing economy there has to be actions made. Sadly though they put it on the people that have nothing to do with the crisis and nothing we can do to fix it, the students.

Wiki Post #1 Shawn Dobson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_7GCgFUkJc This video talks about the explanation of the approval of state furlough days. The sacramento country judge, says that the governor can make state employees take un-paid days off to help the state budget deficit.(42 billion) They believe that taking these days off, with help save a big chunk of money to start helping our state get out of its debt. The workers union on the other hand is trying to fight this, saying these un-paid days break labor laws. The governor says that taking off two friday a month for the furlough days, will save the state of California $1.4 billion. Because of these furlough days, state workers are going to lose 10% of their monthly sallary. This will effect the workers of California in a huge way.

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This online article addresses the state budget and the way that the state budget cuts have, and will continue to, affect k-12 and higher education. The author mentions that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plans to help the economic crisis in California do not hold education as a top priority. The budget cut for education is a reported $1.54 billion dollars for 2010-11 years. If education is the a way of bettering yourself, we should push for that to be the goal of every member of society. It is very scary to hear that the Cal Grant program may be done away with. In the last year alone, fees for a UC have gone up by 32% and 20% for CSU students. The article mentions that as the cost of attending a UC or a CSU rises, it gets beyond the financial grasp of many Californian citizens. These increases in tuition are causing many students to have to transfer to a junior college where they will not be able to receive a 4 year degree. The author mentions that there is a connection between reducing school and increasing juvenile detention institutions. If education is the key to keeping children out of trouble, then we should do all we can to try and prevent it from happening. Before we invest more of the state budget into the prisons, we need to make education our top priority. We have over crowded class rooms and not enough teachers, and the situation is only getting worse. We need to make education our top priority when it comes to the state budget.

Wiki # 3 Shawn Dobson This video is Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about the California debt as a whole, but mainly talking about funding for prisons, education and pension reform. California is in a $19.9 billion deficit. The governor says he wants to protect education with all of the budget cuts, but he says we have no other choice but to have cuts in the system. One quote that he said that I thought was interesting was, “The priorities over the years become out of wack, 30 years ago 10% of the general fund went to higher education, and only 3% went to prisons. Today almost 11% goes to prisons and only 7.5% goes to higher education”. This quote should really open the eyes of many Californians and make everyone realize that we need change. We need to be spending more money on education instead of spending way more on prison systems. I don’t know why California’s priorities have changed, and what made us spend more money on prisons, when obviously education is much more important for our future. I think if California tuition and school costs were not as expensive, and California had a higher funding for education, this would give more opportunities to many more people to be educated and not end up in prison. California definitely needs to make changes on where our money is being spent. ||