Students protest as CSU raises fees by 20%
With a tentative state budget agreement that gouges almost $3 billion from colleges and universities, CSU trustees voted Tuesday to raise student fees by 20 percent. They also gave campuses unprecedented power to disenroll thousands of students who keep taking classes despite having enough credits to graduate. It’s part of an overall effort by CSU to cut $584 million from its $4.6 billion budget by reducing enrollment, laying-off employees and slashing course offerings. CSU employee unions also are wrestling with whether to accept unpaid furloughs amounting to a 10 percent pay cut, or allow additional layoffs to sweep through the system.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.