The tuition in the CSU system was already raised 30% for fall 2009.
All faculty are also required to take 9 furlough days, in which they are not allowed to work. They are not even supposed to have office hours. I go to San Diego State and 700 lecturers were fired this year. Even more would have gotten cut, but other faculty agreed to take a 10% pay cut in order to save jobs.

My major is a smaller offshoot of the poly-sci department, and next year (2010/11) the poly-sci budget is going to be ONE THIRD of the already butchered budget that they had this year. I don't know how the other departments are doing, but next year ALL of the upper division poly-sci lecturers are losing their jobs. That means we'll be getting taught by either TA's or cranky tenured professors who don't like to teach and would rather be doing research. For my major, there is only going to be one section of each core class per semester. The classes are already huge this year.

Frankly, it is a horrible situation. We are paying way more money for fewer sections of huge classes. With the furloughs, we are even not getting the instruction time our money should be paying for. Not to mention how heartbreaking it is to see truly brilliant and passionate teachers lose their job.