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CSU Board Approves Another Student Tuition Increase

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 | Friday, 18 June 2010 10:56
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2:45pm | The Board of Trustees for the California State University system today approved a five-percent fee increase on undergraduate and graduate students the latest in a series of tuition increases to cope with shrinking budgets.

Yearly tuition will be raised by $204 beginning next fall, bringing the total tuition amount for an undergraduate student at one of the 23 CSU campuses to $4,230 per year. Graduate students' tuition will bump to $5,214.

Obviously, one of the schools most affected by the decision will be California State University Long Beach, the largest of the CSU campuses by student population. CSULB faced major budget difficulties last year and was forced to cut enrollment and implement furlough days. Of course, those decisions hurt the students more than anyone else. Today, they took another hit.

The CSU board has taken considerable heat over the past year due to its continued efforts to raise student tuitions, but after the State budget slashed $584 million from its overall budget last year - with deeper cuts expected in this current budget process - the CSU system has had its hands tied.

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tommyd
Still a bargain
Matt
Students feel an immense amount of helplessness about this issue. Any sort of peaceful "walk out" or a non-payment protest of these tuition increases simply ends up hurting their futures as their grades will suffer or they'll simply be kicked out of school. Marches are a joke to law makers these days. Violent protests end badly for students as the police will just arrest them.

No wonder they keep increasing tuition.

Oh and, SCREW, those that keep saying "well it's still a bargain." Higher education should be a priority for this state. Also, maybe it would be more of a bargain if there were more jobs available to graduates. These students are paying more for their education and receiving less opportunities. Still a bargain or not, students are getting the raw end of a nasty stick.
Dragonflyqueen
hmmmmm...How much of a 'cut' is the Board taking? Oh of course that would be too much to ask for...Or what about some of the administration for the CSU....oh, that would be too much to ask for...what is their salary, and how much does their staff make.....If Board Members and their (where it's fair) staff could make cuts, I'm sure budgets could be balanced and few hikes in tuitions would need to be made....Even friends of mine who are retired teachers OR admin. are shocked at the imbalances in pay...how many teachers jobs could be saved if the admin. of various government jobs were reduced even just by a little $$ ? NO raises should be allowed, and raises that happened this last year should be rescinded.....The wrong people always have to suffer because of misappropriations and greedy unions...It would also help for more peope to actually show up and VOTE on the local issues.....locally, one more vote really will make a difference.....it's all connected...
MD
Professors need to hold "teach ins" where students will learn about Ronald Reagan and Prop 13.
CHARLIE
HEY - You do what you have to do, and if you want to futher your education, your just going to have to pay these union teachers their price - no freebies there! And if your Daddy or Mommy can't pay the bill, you can always earn that degree by flipping bergers at night.
Mike
Yeah there's probably enough nightjobs out there "flipping burgers" for 39,000 students. I can't believe this "f--- you" attitude so many people are taking towards the students. It's unbelievable.
Mike
Oh and Charlie, go to the UPOST section of this site and tell me how many job postings you see up there.
CSU Faculty
At Cal Poly, 34% of adjunct faculty were dismissed last year because tuition was only paying 38% of costs. One makes budget by increasing class size and reducing # of students. Now there is little cost cutting on administration and 25% of students pay no tuition, so this is a tax on middle class students. I have no idea why Sacramento doesn't require minimum grades for students on a feeby.
SN
What concerns me more than the latest increase is the cumulative effect of the series of increase over the last 2 years. Just when the students find a way to cope with one increase, another comes along. I do think it's appropriate to question how much CSU at the Chancellors level has cut staff and salaries.
Joseph E
Education may be the next big area of the economy that needs to downsize, perhaps even before healthcare, which has stronger political support. Seniors vote more often than students and young families.

With years of slow to no economic growth ahead, due to limits in natural resources and rapid growth in developing countries, the USA and Europe will lose many of the luxuries we have come to expect: cheap educations, unlimited healtcare, good roads, safe pensions and social security.

Unfortunately, while young people have rushed to get college degrees, which promised good jobs, security and social "success", the system won't work for everyone, and many may be left with $100,000 in debt without a better job.

Raising tuition and requiring huge loans to get an education means that 17 and 18 year olds are taking a huge financial risk at a very young age. You can't get out of college loans by bankruptcy. I am afraid that students from poor and minority families (like many in the CSU system) will be hardest hit.

Well, at least it will solve the immigration "problem." When America is no longer a land of opportunity, no one new will want to come here.
Judge Roy Bean
$4,230 per year
$352 per month
lose the satellite/cable TV and mobile data plan and this gets very surmountable

yep - still a bargain
Summer
Um, most students that I know of have little to no cable TV (if they have it, it's because they still live with their parents). No student pays for a landline today, they all have cell phones. Internships and job offers only come to cell phones, and you are expected to have one. These are future tax payers that are having a harder time throwing their dollars into the collective pot. Take a good look at all of the countries that put little to no money into public education and you will find countries that are not viable in today's global market.
Eagle Eye
The CSU system is SUBSIDIZED college education. You people DO realize that, don't you?!

Know how much you'd be spending at a PRIVATE institution???

With all this education, the thing that MOST of you don't seem to be able to be educated on, is there's no free lunch in life.

My advice? Stop being manipulated into class warfare by politicians, thinking you can just tax (ie STEAL) "rich" people, and use that to make ways for you and your friends in life.

And yes it IS a valid point, that these public school systems are FILLED with useless "administrators", who dont' do anything except suck tax dollars and create an extra burden on all of us.

Basically we are all paying these "administrators" to do a net effect of nothing.

Are they any different than the rest of the socialist empire that's being created???

If you don't like this, then STOP VOTING IN SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS (and some Republicans too) INTO OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coach DJS
As with all of government right now, the biggest cost is the pensions.
Hillary
I'm a full time student at CSULB. I have a car payment, apt, full utilities, cell, cable tv, the works. I work 25 hrs a week in a restaurant and pay for all my school, books, and bills. Of course the tuition is going up like everything else, but it's still nothing compared to a UC or private school. It's still a deal, coming from an actual student.

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