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Student Fees

CFA has a long standing position of opposing student fee increases because fee hikes hurt access to higher education.

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CFA to Trustees: Protect our students, fight for more funding!

CFA leaders didn’t mince any words this week, telling the CSU Board of Trustees that they failed the university system by not fighting harder for funding for the 2017-18 year and not doing more to protect undocumented students.

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Faculty, students serenade Gov. Brown at Capitol; sing the CSU needs $325 million

CFA officers and activists, along with students and community allies, sang a message to Gov. Jerry Brown following his news conference announcing the May Revise plan for the 2017-18 State Budget.

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Governor’s ‘May Revise’ would reduce his prior plan to fund the CSU

Unfortunately, the governor calculated that the Trustees’ tuition increase justifies reducing his state funding plan for the CSU.

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Stopgap Federal budget preserves higher ed spending

The emergency federal spending bill adopted by the U.S. Congress appears to preserve federal spending, with small expansions, for higher education.  The bill keeps the federal government going into September of this year.

According to several news sources, notable elements of the measure include small increases in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Tuition freeze legislation needs your support

While lawmakers continue to discuss funding for the CSU in the coming days and weeks, now more than ever, is the time to let them know that you support a bill that could preserve the system’s affordability and accessibility.

AB 393, authored by Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, would freeze tuition and mandatory system-wide fees in the CSU and California Community Colleges through the 2019-20 academic year.

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Assembly Higher Ed Committee supports tuition and fee moratorium bill, 11-0

A strong message was sent by the unanimous, bi-partisan 11-0 vote of the Assembly Higher Education Committee on Tuesday. The vote send AB 393: The Student Protection Act to the Appropriations Committee, the next step in putting a CSU student tuition freeze into law.

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Trustees choice to raise CSU tuition generates strong response

California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is one of the hundreds of Californians—students, faculty, and organizations—who have posted video and photos on social media of themselves speaking out against the CSU Trustees decision last week to increase CSU students’ tuition.

• See the action in the CFA Photo Gallery

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What happens next to CSU funding and the tuition hike?

The Trustees decision to raise tuition has a caveat—if the state legislature and the governor agree to provide the CSU all the funding the Trustees have requested of them, the Trustees will recind the tuition hike.

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Who are the CSU Trustees?

The Trustees’ vote on renewing CSU tuition increases was unusually close—11 yes and 8 no. In large part, the close vote happened because students, in particular, have worked hard to speak with the Trustees individually trying to change their minds.

So, who are the CSU Trustees who voted on this choice?

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Faculty explain why they are taking a stand against tuition hikes in our public university

Last week at the Trustees meeting, in public hearings at the State Capitol, and during rallies on campuses all over the state, faculty members have been explaining why they oppose tuition increases.

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Trustees approve tuition increase despite fierce protests, opposition

Amid boisterous student protests and stern warnings from elected officials not to raise student tuition, CSU Trustees ignored the pleas to maintain accessibility to the People’s University and approved the fee increase.

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CFA on vote by California State University Trustees to raise system-wide tuition next academic year
Statement from CFA

The following statement may be attributed to Dr. Jennifer Eagan, President of the California Faculty Association, and a professor at California State University East Bay.

We are deeply disappointed that the California State University Board of Trustees has chosen to solve our university system’s funding problems by reaching deeper into the pockets of our students and their families.

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Faculty, students to Trustees: Support legislation that would help, not harm

MARCH 2017—While the big decision over whether to increase student tuition loomed over the second day of the CSU Trustees meeting in Long Beach, faculty and students on Tuesday spoke about the need to support key legislation to members of the Committee on Governmental Relations.

Specifically, faculty and students urged Trustees to support AB 393, AB 1464, and AB 21. The bills are sponsored by CFA.

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Myth: There’s plenty of financial aid

One of the most often repeated phrases we hear from those trying to defend the proposal to raise student fees is that “there’s plenty of financial aid.”

They couldn’t be more wrong.

Here’s the truth.

Fact: The cost of a college degree is much more than tuition. Cost of attendance also is books and supplies, room and board, transportation, and personal expenses (no, not dry-cleaning). 

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Students, faculty plan to protest fee hikes next week at Board of Trustees

Students throughout the CSU are gearing up for action next week, when they’ll urge CSU Trustees to vote down a proposed tuition increase.

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Proposed CSU Tuition Hike faces opposition

Students protested March 1 at CSU Long Beach, CSU Chico, San Jose State, and Humboldt State in opposition to the proposed 5% tuition increase.

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Take Action: 3 things you can do to #FreeTheCSU

Students for Quality Education and  student groups across the CSU are saying: “CSU Trustees—Don’t vote on a tuition increase when you meet March 21-22.” Rather, work hard to get the state funding the CSU needs.

Those who want to #FreeTheCSU can do three things:

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CFA joins hearing on debt-free higher ed, advocates for best interest of students

CFA leader Kevin Wehr was among higher education officials and lawmakers discussing the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s report on debt-free higher education during a Joint Oversight Hearing at the Capitol on Monday, Feb. 27.

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Take Action: StopTheFees.org #StopTheFees

As the state’s commitment of funding to the CSU declined, the pressure to shift the cost to students increased.

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Fact Check: Myths plague discussion about proposed tuition increase

Myth: This tuition increase is insignificant; just work another hour per week.

Fact: There already aren’t enough hours in the day for many students.

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