Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Students protest as CSU raises fees by 20% - Nanette Asimov, SF Chronicle

It just got about $1,000 more expensive to attend California State University for one year - and students are furious. 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.