Schwartzenegger is cutting 20% of University of California's budget

California's universities in trouble: Before the fall The Economist: "“We are in irreversible decline,” says Sandra Faber, a professor of astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who has inadvertently become a mouthpiece for a fed-up faculty. University excellence, she says, “took decades to build. It takes a year to destroy it.”"

I guess it is my background, but also what I'm currently doing, this story is scaring. University of California is a series of state universities where Berkley is third on the Shanghai list after Harvard and Stanford which are private. California is one of these states that need a two thirds majority to pass a budget and this year there has been great troubles to find that extra cash.

They must be in real trouble and this is the largest state in the US with 37m inhabitants.