I work for Cal Poly SLO as a systems administrator, and we just had our sort of back to school pow wow where they were talking about increasing out of state enrollment. This has been happening for awhile now at cal poly, because the state isn't giving the schools the money they need. It has come out this year that the state now provides less than 50% of our funding (around 45ish IIRC), 10 to 15ish years ago that number was more like 90%.
Look at this graph of CSU funding (has enrollment too), the CSU is now funded with less money than it was in 1999! (and I'm pretty sure those numbers ARE NOT adjusted for in inflation.
It's gotten to the point that office trash now only gets emptied once a month (so basically you have to do it). Of course the buildings where administration is are cleaned every night. It's pretty sad really and I hope that they continue to increase out of state enrollment to try and offset this.
True but you also get a lot more in other countries. CA has infrastructure that's falling apart, failing schools, cut backs in their colleges year after year, and so on.
Look at the funding the CSU has received from the state vs the number of students. The state basically demanded enrollment go up, promised funding and never delivered, to the point this year now has a smaller budget than 12 years ago.
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