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Cal State Bakersfield has already cut millions from its budget, and must make another $8.3 million for the coming year. On Thursday the Modern Languages Department met with about 150 people to discuss the possibility that Spanish Bachelors and Masters degree programs could disappear. CSUB would be the only campus in the CSU system that would not have a modern language program if a program cut happened, said Professor Joanne Schmidt. It would be a big blow to lose the Heritage program, which offers education to Latino / Spanish speakers born and raised with the language, Schmidt said. A new community action group will organize actions to publicize the situation, Schmidt said. To date, no tenured faculty have been laid off (they voted to take a 10 percent pay cut in the form of furloughs instead of layoffs; to be clear, many lecturers have been laid off.) CSUB President Horace Mitchell will announce budget reductions by December 1. Recent updates:  CSUB weighing...
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