California Public University Systems

Dear Governor Jerry Brown and the lawmakers in Sacramento,

I am a community-college student who is studying arduously to achieve my career aspiration through transferring to a 4-year university for getting a higher educational degree. In three years ago, I moved from Hong Kong to San Francisco, California, its purpose is to continuing my education under a better quality educational environment. In fact, I heard some bad news about the cuts to higher education in this last couple of years, that will cut off the amount of registered students and classes, the services on the campuses, and the overall quality of education. This seems a terrible illusion that is distorting my career dream indirectly.

Honestly, under increasing schooling fee already made me difficulty to continue my higher education, even though I can understand about the financial risk in California. But now, there are many decisions of changing California's post-secondary education system. When the class sizes are changed larger, the class instructors will have more students to teach and help. Hence, they might not handle that much, and it affects their quality teaching for us. When the essential services have been cut off, it makes me losing a quiet studying area in the library and also losing helpers who help me achieving my transferring goal as counselors, teachers, tutors from tutorial center, etc. It entirely decreases my valuable opportunity to complete my higher education.

Please cautiously consider this important decisions about California public university systems again.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Wing Yan Chung (Natalie)