Charging full-time students extra for courses their tuition is supposed to buy has set the system on a troubling course, say students and some faculty and lawmakers. And, because need-based state university grants don’t cover the cost of such classes, the policy could harm CSU’s many low-income students, they say. The shift came at the height of the state budget crisis, after CSU’s former chancellor in late 2009 allowed campus presidents to expand their high-cost special classes in the summer. Some students sued in 2010, arguing that state law prohibited replacing, or “supplanting,” regular classes with the special ones. CSU won the case, arguing that it violated no law as long as it didn’t eliminate a required course from regular session, even if it reduced the number of classes for it. Now, the Legislature is considering how to more narrowly define the term “supplant” to prevent CSU from adding special sessions of courses that have been trimmed back in regular session.

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by Katy Murphy, Inside Bay Area.

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