Higher-education cuts run deep

Aims student Franco Silva wants to make sure the state’s funding cuts to higher education don’t end up cutting him out of a degree in computer science.

Silva, who plans to enroll in a four-year computer-science program at either Colorado State University or a university in Texas, got on the telephone to check on the status of computer-science studies at CSU when he first heard about the cuts. He was assured that computer science wasn’t likely to be axed at CSU, but he remains leery.

“I don’t want to be in the middle of my program and they drop it,” Silva said.…