California State University trustees will vote on a mid-year fee increase on Nov. 9 that would raise tuition by 5 percent for the spring term… The proposal is not unexpected. When CSU trustees voted in June to raise fees for the current semester they said they would consider another fee increase after a state budget was approved. The budget Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed earlier this month assumed CSU tuition would go up by 10 percent — but trustees had raised fees by only 5 percent in June. "In our analysis, a mid-year adjustment of an additional 5 percent is needed in order to fulfill the budget’s promise to restore access to students in a meaningful sense–that is, to restore access to courses and the range of services students need to succeed and graduate," states a CSU report prepared for the Nov. 9 meeting.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

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