Once again the lack of state funding is causing a budget deficit in the CSU system's 2012-13 academic year, this time of about $510 million, and students are again facing tuition increases. Last fall, full-time undergraduate tuition was $5,472 per year. Students this year will be paying $5,970. Things could get worse. If voters don't approve Gov. Jerry Brown's November tax-hike initiative - Proposition 30 - the CSU system has prepared its 2012-13 budget to include $250 million in midyear cuts.
But if voters do approve the initiative the system and its students will get to rest easy - at least for now. The fall tuition hike was one of the ways the CSU system has prepared for the possibility that the governor's initiative doesn't pass.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_21236594/csu-students-start-year-more-economic-uncertainty
