The U.S. Department of Education has premiered a database on its web-site comparing college costs of all kinds. Of 32 public, four-year schools in the United States with the steepest tuition increases from 2007 to 2010, 22 are CSUs, with tuition rising 35 percent at Humboldt State at the low end, to 47 percent at San Diego State… As California’s economy tanked and the state became more miserly toward public universities, CSU has steadily raised its tuition. The new state budget reduces CSU’s allocation by $650 million to $2.2 billion, with the threat of another $100 million cut next winter. CSU’s soaring tuition "shows that our state, more so than most, is divesting from higher education – no secret, right?"

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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