FREEZE STUDENT FEES
GARAMENDI: FREEZE STUDENT FEES
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi went on the offensive against California’s ever-rising student fees last week. In an opinion article published in the Los Angeles Times, Garamendi advocated for a moratorium on student fee increases.
His article states: “We've been creeping down that road toward privatization for years, slowly shifting the cost of running our public universities from the public at large to students and their families. Over the last 13 years, as the cost of living went up by 40% in California, total student fees for resident undergraduates at Cal State increased by 90%, and at UC by about 110%.
“Enough is enough. Cal State and UC fees should be stabilized at current levels, in constant dollars. That means no future increases except to keep pace with inflation.”
To read the full opinion article, go to: http://www.ltg.ca.gov/pdf/LGG_LAT_OpEd.pdf
· FRESNO, MODESTO BEE TAKE ON STUDENT FEES
Last week the Fresno and Modesto Bees published perhaps the harshest critique yet of CSU executives for continuing to raise student fees at the same time that top executives continue to rake in extravagant raises.
“Leaders of the state's higher education systems are contemplating an early Christmas present for California's college students: higher tuition. That's quite a different gift than the pay raises and perks given to executives of the two systems,” the papers wrote.
“State support for higher education, as a percentage of the systems' budgets, has fallen sharply. That's led to frequent and onerous fee hikes borne by students and their families. And that, in turn, has pushed increasing numbers of students out of the system -- and out of the opportunities that higher education can offer them.”
To read the editorial, go to: http://www.modbee.com/opinion/story/127232.html
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi went on the offensive against California’s ever-rising student fees last week. In an opinion article published in the Los Angeles Times, Garamendi advocated for a moratorium on student fee increases.
His article states: “We've been creeping down that road toward privatization for years, slowly shifting the cost of running our public universities from the public at large to students and their families. Over the last 13 years, as the cost of living went up by 40% in California, total student fees for resident undergraduates at Cal State increased by 90%, and at UC by about 110%.
“Enough is enough. Cal State and UC fees should be stabilized at current levels, in constant dollars. That means no future increases except to keep pace with inflation.”
To read the full opinion article, go to: http://www.ltg.ca.gov/pdf/LGG_LAT_OpEd.pdf
· FRESNO, MODESTO BEE TAKE ON STUDENT FEES
Last week the Fresno and Modesto Bees published perhaps the harshest critique yet of CSU executives for continuing to raise student fees at the same time that top executives continue to rake in extravagant raises.
“Leaders of the state's higher education systems are contemplating an early Christmas present for California's college students: higher tuition. That's quite a different gift than the pay raises and perks given to executives of the two systems,” the papers wrote.
“State support for higher education, as a percentage of the systems' budgets, has fallen sharply. That's led to frequent and onerous fee hikes borne by students and their families. And that, in turn, has pushed increasing numbers of students out of the system -- and out of the opportunities that higher education can offer them.”
To read the editorial, go to: http://www.modbee.com/opinion/story/127232.html
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