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

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Pressure continues to fund the CSU; next up CFA Lobby Days & The May Revise

The 1,000 California State University students, faculty and supporters who rallied for the CSU at the State Capitol last week generated a significant amount of energy and support for the CSU.

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Be there: Faculty, Students, Chancellor, Assembly Speaker & Senate Pro Tem to rally April 4 for needed CSU funding

“This is a critical moment for California’s public higher education system,” says CFA President Jennifer Eagan. “The state has the money it would take to restore much of the damage done to the CSU over the past decade, and everyone who knows how important that is needs to speak up now.”

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April 3 Assembly Budget hearing to address state funding for the CSU

The Legislature is deep into hearings on what should be included in the 2018-19 California State Budget, and pressure is growing to step up funding for the California State University.

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Building to April 4: CFA, students speak out for the CSU at the Capitol

In one of California’s best fiscal years ever, it’s time to fund the CSU. That is the message faculty and students are bringing to CSU campuses and the Capitol where the 2018-19 State Budget is being hammered out.

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Organizing for April 4: Sacramento students hold teach-in with campus president

Students at CSU Sacramento called on campus President Robert Nelson this week to show his support for students who will rally for the CSU at the State Capitol on April 4.

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April 4 #FreeTheCSU—New animation tells why, RSVP to get there

Hundreds of faculty and students around the state have RSVP’d to go to Sacramento on April 4. And a just-released animation explains why you should RSVP, too.

“This is definitely an ‘if not now, when?’ moment for the CSU,” says Kevin Wehr, CFA Secretary who is organizing for April 4 along with his CFA chapter, which is just a few miles from the State Capitol.

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Faculty: We need you at the State Capitol on April 4 to say ‘Governor—Fund the CSU!’

As debate unfolds at legislative hearings on state funding for public higher education, CFA activists from San Diego to Humboldt are preparing for a day of action at the State Capitol on April 4.

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California Democratic Party adopts CFA resolution opposing student tuition hikes

CFA President Jennifer Eagan’s rousing call for a resolution to oppose tuition increases in our public higher education systems met with broad support at the California Democratic Party convention last weekend.

Convention delegates adopted a sense-of-the-body resolution amid cheers to “oppose any tuition increases at the UC, CSU or community college systems.”

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Eagan to CA Dems: Help keep the doors of our collective future open

Eagan to CA Dems: Help keep the doors of our collective future open

The following is a speech CFA President Jennifer Eagan gave to delegates during the California Democratic Convention Feb. 23-25 in San Diego.

We need you Democrats. The faculty needs you and the students need you. The future of California depends on the Democratic Party. I am Jennifer Eagan, president of the California Faculty Association and a professor at the CSU — the People’s University. I’m asking for your support for an important issue of our time. I am asking you to help keep the doors of our collective future open.

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Raise our Faculty Voice at the State Capitol on April 4 to say ‘Governor—Fund the CSU!’

CFA, Students for Quality Education, and other CSU advocates scored a victory last week when the CSU Chancellor and Trustees delayed a vote on a proposed tuition hike. Now, faculty and students are shifting focus. Up next: Telling Gov. Jerry Brown to fund the CSU adequately.

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Chancellor delays vote on tuition hike

Just a week after protest led the UC Regents to postpone a vote on student tuition hikes, CSU Chancellor Timothy White announced on Monday a decision to delay a similar vote of the CSU Trustees.

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CFA says Trustees must step up fight for needed CSU funding from governor, legislature

CFA followed up this week on a January 4 open letter to the Chancellor by telling CSU Trustees at their Jan. 30 meeting it is time to step up meaningful pressure on the legislature and governor. It’s the one way the CSU can get the funds it really needs to live up to its mission.

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Trustees to consider burdening students with additional tuition increase

The CSU Board of Trustees will be meeting next week to discuss the state budget shortfall and among the proposals to buffer the system’s finances is to raise student tuition by 4 percent.

The discussion will be held as part of an information item during Tuesday afternoon’s Committee on Finance.

Trustees will discuss whether to increase tuition for all students by 4 percent, which would spike annual tuition to $5,970. The increase would amount to an additional $228 per resident undergraduate student.

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Gov. Brown rails against CSU funding; 30,000 qualified students turned away yearly

At Governor Brown’s news conference on his 2018-19 state budget plan last week, a reporter asked him about the CFA PopUp Art Installation outside calling for more funding to admit 18,000 more qualified students to the CSU.

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OPEN LETTER: We Must Protect Student Access to the California State University

CFA sent the following Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Timothy White and CSU Trustees in advance of the release on January 10, 2018 of Governor Brown’s 2018-19 State Budget plan .
 
CFA calls on CSU leaders to  be stronger in fighting to keep the CSU—the People’s University—public and open to all qualified Californians.

Chancellor Timothy White and CSU Trustees
California State University
401 Golden Shore
Long Beach, CA 90802

January 4, 2018

Dear Chancellor White and CSU Trustees,

The time has come for the state of California to end the long, slow process of dismantling public higher education. For decades, state disinvestment from the California State University has harmed students and it has harmed our state. We have too few Californians with college degrees.

The CSU is turning away eligible students who were promised a place in college in California’s Master Plan for Higher Education. More than 31,000 students were denied admission this year, with more students likely to be excluded in the future.

Now, this disinvestment is poised to continue, both in the Governor’s budget proposal to be released this month and in the budget request that the CSU Trustees submitted to the governor.

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More at the CSU Trustees meeting this week

Find links to complete comments of speakers cited below on the CFA web site.

A MORAL IMPERATIVE: Cecil Canton, CFA Associate VP-Affirmative Action who teaches Criminal Justice, spoke about a CFA letter to the Trustees, Chancellor and campus presidents saying the CSU needs its leaders to show greater strength in the face of racism, hate and bigotry surfacing on campuses. Calling on them to set aside fear of lawsuits or criticism, he said “You need to say what it is that is actually undermining our democracy and that is threatening the people who are the most defenseless in this country.” Student Maggie White in her report from the California State Student Association said of the threat to undocumented students, “We will not stop talking about this” until all CSU students are safe. In plenary, the CSU Trustees adopted a resolution calling for a legislative solution for Dreamer students.

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In Other News…

GOP’S TAX BILL WOULD HIT STUDENTS, FACULTY AND UNIVERSITIES: The federal tax bill now under consideration by Congress would eliminate tax deductions for student loan interest and

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Students taking action to #FreeTheCSU with events to educate, uplift campus community

From debt-themed carnivals to teach-ins, students throughout the state are taking action this week to #FreeTheCSU from tuition, debt, discrimination, and racism.

Students for Quality Education (SQE) is hosting the events to build awareness and understanding about the need to unchain students from massive student loan debt, and improve social justice on CSU campuses.

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Today’s CSU students are taking on new, difficult challenges to preserve public higher education for all

They continue a long history of student activism with new awareness of ‘intersectionality’ across the range of people’s expanding identities and social justice issues.

By Juliana Nascimento
CFA Southern California Student Intern Coordinator

Students and young people have been on the front lines of some of the
largest and most important struggles and movements in modern history.

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CSU student financial aid
MYTHS & FACTS

Last March, on a rare split vote preceded by lengthy debate as students protested and faculty testified that it was a bad idea, the CSU Trustees decided to increase Fall 2017 student tuition by 5%. It brings statewide CSU undergraduate tuition to $5,742 a year.

The CSU administration says tuition hikes don’t hurt financially strapped students. That is not true. It is one of many myths about tuition and financial aid.

Here are some examples.

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