Kristen Foster '20 (CLAS), center, and other students listen as Gov. Dannel Malloy speaks about the state budget at the student center at the Avery Point on Sept. 25, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Gov. Dannel Malloy speaks about budget cuts to the University during an event at the student center at the Avery Point campus on Sept. 25, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Students, faculty, staff, and members of the media listen as Gov. Dannel Malloy speaks about the state budget at the Avery Point campus student center on Sept. 25, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, speaking at UConn Avery Point on Monday, vowed to continue fighting against efforts to impose legislative cuts on UConn in a budget he described as 'anti-intellectual' and 'a frontal assault' on the state’s flagship university. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn President Susan Herbst, speaking at UConn Avery Point on Monday, said that while the University was prepared for budget cuts, the new spending plan’s reductions are so draconian that they threaten UConn’s ability to continue operating regional campuses such as Avery Point. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Connecticut state Sen. Cathy Osten, D-19th District, said at UConn Avery Point on Monday that she was distressed and disappointed by other legislators’ votes to approve a new state budget cut drastically cuts UConn, and that she will work with others to continue the fight against it. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Connecticut state Rep. Chris Soto, D-New London, speaking at UConn Avery Point on Monday, termed the legislature’s new budget and its cuts to UConn as an attack on people like his constituents who benefit from UConn and the positive economic effects it brings to the region and state. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Connecticut state Sen. Mae Flexer, D-29th District, said at UConn Avery Point that while she thought her legislative colleagues supported higher education, she was disappointed to find during the budget vote that a majority do not – and she vowed to continue fighting for UConn, from which she graduated with a political science degree. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Avery Point student Liz White CLAS ’18 said that if budget cuts force UConn to close that campus or other regional locations, it would cause many students to miss out on the proximity and personal touch that a small local campus can offer. 'It forces these students – students like me – to choose between our job, our community, our ability to provide for our families and our degree,' she said. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Avery Point student Stan Kesilewski CLAS ’18 said that the state’s fiscal condition 'has our academic community beyond unnerved.' He thanked Malloy for his support of UConn, and said if the University’s budget cuts force it to close regional campuses, it would create 'an emptiness of epic proportions' for students like himself. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Stan Kesilewski '18 (CLAS), left, Liz White '18 (CLAS) and Gov. Dannel Malloy at the Avery Point campus student center on Sept. 25, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)