Serious Budget Cuts - Coaches asked to become part time employees

[tornado]

The State of California is seeking to have the assistant coaches at the state schools (California, Fresno State, UCLA, etc..)
to take furloughs...mandatory days off, perhaps up to 2 months out of the year and become,
in effect, part time employees, so the state can cut costs and begin balancing the budget.

http://www.hoopville.com/2009/07/28/california-mandates-part-time-coaches/

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2009-07-27-california-budget-crisis_N.htm?csp=34

[SFP]

This state is in deep trouble! The out of control political system is a joke. I'm still flabbergasted how a state with so many resources a great place to live can be run to the ground. Well I guess when the unions hold too much control and no one has the political will to do something regarding entitlement programs these things happen.

[jasonpeoria911]

Perhaps the state schools need to start charging everyone tuition instead of those that make over $60,000 or however much it is. Didn't I also read that they were raising tuition 20% for the state schools?

Jason

This state is in deep trouble! The out of control political system is a joke. I'm still flabbergasted how a state with so many resources a great place to live can be run to the ground. Well I guess when the unions hold too much control and no one has the political will to do something regarding entitlement programs these things happen.

[tornado]

if they just charged each AAU boss or handler a 10% surcharge on their take,
the deficit would vanish overnight...

[SFP]

Perhaps the state schools need to start charging everyone tuition instead of those that make over $60,000 or however much it is. Didn't I also read that they were raising tuition 20% for the state schools?

Jason

Higher Education is not what is putting California in the financial quagmire but years of bureaucratic growth (I'd use bloated but that would not be good enough), zero accountability from the state unions, special interest groups from all sides taking their cuts, policies that are costing the state the ability to attract new business let alone keep them, a tax system that is one of the highest in the union and lastly but not very PC the cost of maintaining all the illegals. I'm a fan of those that want to work but there are many that come here and try to milk the system and commit a ton of crimes.

This country right now needs to fun higher ed because if you have not notice there is a huge financial shift happening globally that has not happened since the industrial revolution. You will either have the ability to perform a skilled job where a degree is needed, be highly skilled in a trade (Plumbing etc..) or live in the margins.