Cal State to seek 20% additional fee hike for next school year

California State University officials said today they will recommend a 20% additional student fee increase beginning this fall to help meet projected state funding cutbacks of $584 million. The Cal State chancellor had said earlier he was considering an extra fee increase of 15% to 20%.

 

The hike recommendation, which was released today, would be on top of a 10 % fee increase approved in May, and would bring average annual undergraduate fees to $5,499 a year. Teacher credential students would pay $5,475 and graduate students would be assessed $5,763.

 

Out-of-state students would also face added charges, for total annual fees of $15,987.

 

Cal State’s Board of Trustees is set to vote on the recommended increase July 21. The university, the largest four-year institution in the country, educates 450,000 students at 23 campuses stretching from Humboldt to San Diego.

 

 --  Gale Holland

 

Comments

[Will]

Chancellor Reed and the trustees of the CSU have been derelict for years in not lobbying for adequate funding. Now the trustees even refuse to discuss endorsing an oil severance tax to provide a steady revenue stream. It is time for new leadership at the CSU.

[viewer]

This is still a great bargain. The community colleges are even less expensive.

[jwalker11]

Specific to CSUB. Another fee hike?! How many fee hikes do they expect us students to take? I know in the whole scheme of things it wont amount to much, but let's see the chancellor take a pay cut/cut to his "allowances". He should feel the pain along with the students and the professors. They've already cut so many professors that class sizes in many of the courses have nearly doubled. With future purposed cuts, the small class sizes that attract many students will be gone, as will the access and attention that students currently receive from professors. Also, enrollment has been "frozen". If you aren't currently enrolled for the current quarter, you can't enroll for the next quarter. That's exactly what we need, fewer, less educated people locally. Can you say "hicktown"?

[jwalker11]

Viewer, it's only a great bargain if you're not on a fixed income or haven't already had your financial aid awarded and planned out your finances for the year. BTW, if you haven't already been accepted and have your financial aid awarded, you can't get in, enrollment has been closed at all campuses on the quarter system. So if you're hoping to find a job through bettering your education, at least at the CSU's for the next 6 months (it could be longer, you'll just have to wait and see), you can't. This of course assumes that the professors are willing to take a 4% pay cut (2 furlough days a month) or accept the loss of more of their own without striking. So it's only a great bargain for those who've already been accepted, who can come up with the extra money, and it comes in part at the expense of the professors and staff. Hooray! Who is this good for?