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Article: UC system may lose $100 million in state funding
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- January 15, 2008
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Madeline Mccurry Schmidt
University Wire
01-15-2008
(The California Aggie) (UWIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- A sum of $100 million in state funding may be cut from the UC system next year, according to a proposed budget released from the governor's office Jan. 11. The cut, which amounts to a 3 percent reduction in state funding from last year, could affect student fees and UC programs statewide.
"There is some chance that regions would want to make up that [$100 million] loss by increasing student fees," said Tom Timar, professor of education and director of the UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education.
Timar, who worked as director of research for Governor Schwarzenegger's Advisory Committee ...