As students protest, Cal State trustees seek more state funding to avoid tuition increase
No decision on whether to increase tuition will be made until after January, officials said. But the idea has raised the ire of many students and faculty members, who plan to continue demonstrations Wednesday at the downtown offices of Chancellor Timothy P. White. The proposed increase, which could amount to $270 for the 2017-18 school year, was introduced as a last resort to help address Cal State’s budget shortfall… State funding has fallen from about 80% of Cal State’s operating costs in the 1990s to about 50% today, administrators said. The system relies on tuition and student fees to cover the other half. Students argue they’re already strapped by the highest tuition in history — from 2006 to 2011, tuition had more than doubled to $5,472.
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by Rosanna Xia, The Los Angeles Times.