The consequences of these gouging cuts to the Golden State's educational system have meant dramatic increases in tuition, staff reductions, faculty hiring freezes, academic program cuts, and the ushering in of a culture of despair and disrepair throughout public schools, community colleges, and universities.
In Nebraska, rising tuition and staff cuts sparked a big protest at the Capitol last month.
For administrators, the choices are either to raise tuition or drop staff members.
To finance his dream, he raised tuition and cut staff, resulting in a dangerous drop in enrollment and a steep reduction in revenue that brought the school into a full-fledged fiscal crisis.
One of the conditions imposed on these colleges — to provide a €500,000, or $715,000, bank guarantee that would cover refunds of students' tuition fees and staff wages in the event of the college's closing — is incompatible with E.U. laws on freedom to offer and receive services, according to the European Commission.
University of California President Mark Yudof has suffered a lot of criticism for his decisions about the running of the university during a tremendously difficult period: the state's financial distress has forced a great reduction in the university's budget, leading to firings (staff), tuition increases (students), and furloughs (staff, faculty, and administration).
More radically, offering Asian language tuition to social services staff also contributed to higher satisfaction with the care provided.
With their endowments ravaged by the financial markets and more students clamoring for assistance, private colleges like Reed are making numerous changes this year in staff, students, tuition and classes that they hope will tide them over without harming their reputations or their educational goals.
New Brunswick also created the Early Learning and Childcare Trust Fund, an arm-length agency with a board appointed by the provincial government, that ensured long-term public funding for regulated space creation, tuition reimbursement for childcare staff upgrading their skills, and the implementation of the 0- to 4-year-old curriculum.
Over the past three years, the cash-strapped state has sharply reduced funding to California's public colleges and universities, which has led to steep tuition hikes, course cutbacks, staff layoffs and reduced student enrollment.
Many libraries have been trying to recruit from their own support staffs, offering tuition vouchers and support for employees who want to become librarians.
