But here’s the rub: while the state has had its good and bad years, and while the CSU students and campuses have taken hits before, the state never made up for those hits when the good times returned. State support for education has continually declined, with student fees having gone up by 32 percent just since last fall. Fees at the universities are increasingly out of the reach of ordinary working students, while quality faculty are being stifled and driven away by increasingly difficult working conditions. This is not the recipe for creating a population ready to serve the needs of a 21st century California.

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by Donald Barrett, North County Times.

Posted: September 9th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.