Juan Padilla can easily sum up what the governor's budget proposal for higher education will mean to him.

"More hours. Less sleep. That's what it amounts to," said Padilla, a 26-year-old sociology major who attends classes at Oxnard College during the day and works nights at Technicolor to pay for school.

If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal is approved by the Legislature, the cost of classes for community college, University of California and California State University students will soon go up. Fee increases are a major component of the higher education budget released Friday.

Community college students will face a fee increase of $8 per unit, from $18 this fiscal year to $26 next fiscal year. Community college students who already hold a bachelor's degree or higher degree will be charged $50 per unit.

UC and CSU students will face 10 percent increases, bringing UC fees to $5,482 and CSU fees to $2,251 per year. Schwarzenegger also proposed a 20 percent increase in tuition for out-of-state students at UC and CSU campuses, and a 40 percent increase in graduate fees for UC and CSU students.

The increase in graduate fees may push Leon Aragon to another state for graduate school. Aragon, a 23-year-old senior majoring in sociology at CSU Northridge at Channel Islands, wants to earn a master's degree in communication.

"Most likely, due to the state budget, I'll go out of state," he said. "The increase of costs erases the cost benefit of (staying in) California."

Along with the fee increases, Schwarzenegger proposed an 8 percent funding cut for the UC system and a 9 percent cut for the CSU system. Neither system would get any money to pay for enrollment growth.

In addition, the governor proposed cutting freshmen enrollment at UC and CSU schools by 10 percent, shifting those students to the community colleges.

The community colleges would get $125 million to pay for 3 percent enrollment growth, in part to offset the costs of the extra freshmen.

UC and CSU officials decried the budget cuts, saying students' access to higher education would be limited and program quality could suffer. As many as 20,000 students could be turned away from CSU schools next year, CSU officials said.

Added to all the cuts made in the past two years, the new cuts represent a 30 percent decrease in funding for the CSU, said CSUCI English Professor Renny Christopher. The impacts from the cuts and the fee increases will be far-reaching, she said.

"The CSU turns out the majority of the teaching credentials in the state. If people can't afford credential programs, we're going to have another teacher shortage," Christopher said. "Access is limited. That's the bottom line."

CSUCI President Richard Rush, in Los Angeles on Friday interviewing job candidates, said he hadn't had a chance to review the specifics of the budget or its impact on the Ventura County campus but said his primary concern is maintaining access.

"Anything that reduces access, in my view, is a tragedy," he said. "An educated populace is essential to California's economic vitality."

Community college officials, who had feared more budget cuts, were more optimistic.

The budget proposal calls for a $211 million increase in community college funding, including the growth money and $80 million for equalization.

That money would go to "low-revenue" community colleges that receive less money than the statewide average per student. Ventura County is a low-revenue district and a likely benefactor of the proposal.

"The equalization, I think it's going to be helpful," said interim Chancellor Bill Studt.

"It can only be positive for us, because that's one of the things that's been killing us."