Despite receiving an increase in state funding last month, the CSU Board of Trustees is set to vote on yet another massive student fee hike.

The Trustees will vote next week on whether to approve a fee hike that would bump student costs by a combined 15.5 percent between this fall and next.

With this latest increase, student fees will be 242% higher than they were in 2002 (when the latest round of major budget cuts began). Fee hikes have averaged 13% per year since that time.

CFA leaders emphasized that this fee hike will have terrible consequences for access to the system.

“This fee hike will clearly fall hardest on underserved groups and first-generation college students,” said CFA Vice President Kim Geron, a professor of political science at CSU East Bay.

Geron continued, “With this move, Chancellor Reed, Chair Herb Carter, and the rest of the Trustees are essentially telling lower-middle class and minority students that there is no place for them at the CSU. That is a travesty.”