The budget the Legislature adopted Tuesday holds a gloomy future for students, faculty and administrators in the state's public colleges.

Community college fees will go up, and the president of the University of California system said Wednesday he will raise tuition 30 percent this year instead of a previously approved 25 percent.

In addition, California State University, which already raised tuition 30 percent this year, will have to close its doors this spring on 30,000 students -- cutting its enrollment growth next academic year nearly in half.

"We have entered a totally new budget environment," CSU Chancellor Charles Reed said in a solemn statement released Wednesday.

Cal State Hayward President Norma Rees said officials are faced with a "terrible choice" of limiting student enrollment or further reducing the quality of a CSU education.

"It's a choice the state and university system shouldn't have to make," she said.

And the toll of the budget fallout on public higher education in California keeps growing:

- UC will also have to consider restricting enrollments next year. One proposal would call for freezing 2004-05 enrollments at this year's level, even as more students continue to flood UC campuses. Campuses will also be encouraged to limit spring and winter enrollments this year.

- The opening of UC Merced will be delayed a year -- from fall 2004 to fall 2005.

- CSU will have to reduce as many as 2,300 faculty and staff positions.

- CSU and UC won't receive any new money for faculty or staff raises, which will cause already lagging salary levels to fall further behind those at comparable institutions outside California.

- Despite the higher fees, students at all campuses will see larger classes and fewer course offerings, potentially delaying graduation times.

"You are going to ask me to pay more for less?" Cal State Hayward student Julio Munoz asked Wednesday. The fee hike CSU trustees approved two weeks ago increases undergraduate tuition by $474, to $2,046 a year.

The hikes are one way officials are recouping record cuts passed along by the state.

Under the budget plan that Gov. Gray Davis is expected to sign Saturday, CSU, the state's largest university system with 408,000 students at 23 campuses, will lose $345.2 million -- or 13 percent -- of its $2.6 billion general fund budget. UC will absorb a $410 million cut to its roughly $3 billion state-funded budget.

The budget compromise also reduces funding this year for enrollment growth in CSU and UC, and legislators warned that no money for enrollment growth would be provided in next year's budget. University officials are looking at breaking decades-old promises to provide access for every available student.

"This is a major issue for us," said UC spokesman Hanan Eisenman. "It means we'll have to cap enrollment for the first time in recent memory and it does look as if we will be unable to admit all UC eligible students in 2004-05 because of state budget cuts, and we're very distressed about that."

UC serves about 190,000 students at nine campuses.

The budget cuts also caused UC President Richard Atkinson to exercise his authority to raise system tuition an additional 5 percent this fall. UC regents, anticipating cuts, voted July 17 to increase fees 25 percent and gave Atkinson approval to implement the additional hike if required by the budget.

Under the 30 percent increase, undergraduate tuition will rise $1,150 this year to $4,984 annually. Tuition for graduate, professional school students and non-California residents will also increase. UC will also borrow $47.5 million to offset some of the state cut.

The state's budget also increases tuition in community colleges from $11 per class unit to $18. Most classes are three or four units.

Financial aid is expected to mitigate the fee increases for the state's neediest students, officials in all college systems have said.

Scott Lay, director of state budget issues with the Community College League of California, which advocates for community colleges, said the fee increase will bring in about $84 million to the 108-college system.

Community colleges will still have to absorb an approximately $90 million cut that will affect availability of classes, counseling services and other student programs, Lay said. The cut is less than colleges expected under early budget proposals, mainly because officials borrowed $200 million from future funds to avoid more drastic cuts.

In addition, the colleges will also have to absorb additional students who are unable to enroll in CSU and UC campuses across the state.

"Community colleges take all comers," said Frederick Harris, director of college finance and facilities planning for California Community Colleges. "... If they're closing to door on UC and CSU, they'll be coming to us."