The info I get from Foothill-DeAnza College District (FHDA) sources is that they are trapped in a 'perfect storm' of huge financial and unnecessary state-mandated "educational" mandates that has been growing ever since Grey Davis was Governor.

1. The district has been deliberately underfunded by the State of CA ever since the 2010 State govt budgetary crisis created by the USA's 2008 "Sub-Prime Loan and Financial Derivative" Super-Recession.

2. Despite the deliberate FHDA funding shortfall, CA has continued to burden (pile on shamelessly actually) FHDA with unnecessary and very expensive social welfare programs that have nothing to do with FHDA's three fundamental mandates --- AA degrees, sending 4-year transfer students to CA State and UC schools, and Continuing Adult Education.

3. For the past few years, student enrollment (and student tuition and fees) have been falling at least about 5% per year at FHDA campuses. This last year, it was 7%.

4. Salaries, benefits, and pensions for Tenured Faculty and all Administrators are OUT OF CONTROL and has been been exploding to insanely high levels --- and the number of highly paid administrators has exploded by 85% since 2008 while faculty and student counts have remained fairly steady. In the mean time, they're paying part-time instructors at 1/5 the salary of tenured faculty --- with no benefits whatsoever.

If you want more on Administrators' and Senior Faculty's INSANE salaries, just go online and see what these glorified high school staff are paid. You will be shocked at just how much mediocre bureaucrats are being paid.

transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/foothill-deanza-district/