Support for travel to disseminate faculty and student scholarship, enhance the professional development of our faculty and staff, and expand the global reach of curricular offerings and student learning is important to the mission of CSULB.
Unfortunately, due to budget reductions from the state of California, CSULB must continue to limit support for travel. Academic Affairs travel guidelines apply to all faculty and staff in the academic division and to all travel in any way sponsored by the division. Please see the revised guidelines.
As reported in news media, Governor Brown has not yet been able to get sufficient Republican legislators to agree to a June ballot to seek voter approval of the tax extensions that are central to his January budget proposal.
At this point, we cannot know with certainty what this might mean for the next fiscal year. The Governor might still succeed in getting the legislature to pass something close to his January budget or the legislature might pass a budget that includes even larger reductions to state programs including the CSU. The campus and Academic Affairs have been planning for both possibilities. More.
The state budget outlook is very uncertain. Governor Brown has proposed a $500 million cut to the CSU for next year. If tax extensions proposed by the Governor are not placed on a June ballot or do not receive voter approval, our reduction could be larger.
Every spring, the campus develops budget plans for the following year. This spring, we need to plan for two scenarios that are both plausible. The “best case” scenario assumes the state budget that is approved by the Legislature is similar to the Governor’s January proposal including tax extensions approved by the voters in June. A “worse case” scenario could occur if the June tax extensions fail and the cut to the CSU becomes much larger. More.
As you know, the state budget outlook remains uncertain. Governor Brown has proposed a $500m cut to the CSU for next year. If June tax extensions do not receive voter approval, cuts could be larger still. More.
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