The cost to attend California State University this fall could rise by 30 percent compared with the year just ended, an increase experts said could drive students out of school… University leaders hope to absorb much of their budget cuts through furloughs. They say salaries make up more than 85 percent of CSU’s budget, so they can’t cut their budget significantly without reducing wages. On Wednesday, the CSU faculty union – representing 23,000 professors, librarians and coaches – announced that it would put the furlough proposal to a vote of its members. Lillian Taiz, president of the California Faculty Association, put out a statement saying, "After a great deal of back and forth, it is now clear that the CSU Chancellor has rejected CFA’s demands that his furlough proposal include a proportionate reduction in the faculty’s workload."

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by Laurel Rosenhall , The Sacramento Bee.

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