Cal Poly and budget woes

ucsd_ucla_dad
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:44:07 +0000

IMO rather than reducing programs they should increase student fees to cover the gap. According to my quick calculation (but maybe I’m missing something), accommodating the $9.9M budget decrease by increased fees among 16,600 students (4150 freshman UGs X 4 years) would only be about $600 per year. If it was divided up between the number of students indicated on CalPoly’s website (19,777), it’d be about $500.

I’m sure something’s missing from the simple equations above but still, I’d rather see a fee increase rather than a cut in programs. That goes for the UCs as well. Even with the increase these schools would still be a good deal IMO.