The Governor made a new budget proposal yesterday that would restore last year’s level of funding (in real-dollar terms still a cut, since undergrad enrollment is rising and costs are rapidly increasing). That would be a better situation for us, but it comes at the cost of state health care!

In any case, no proposed budgets are meaningful until the State Assembly passes one. We’re going to keep working together with other departments, both here and at other UCs, CSU, and community colleges to try to protect higher education in California.