Sunday, August 7, 2011

CSU plans fee hikes, furloughs to save $584M - Sacramento Business Journal:

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The increase, which the Los Angeles Times says is 15 percenr to20 percent, comes on the heels of a 10 percentt tuition hike in May, and would bring a year of undergraduates fees at Sacramento State to $4,862 - $5,073. CSU spokeswoman Claudiq Keith said no numbers have been set but that rangde wasa possibility. The fee increase will be consideredxJuly 21. The university system said it expects federal stimulus financial aid increases will cover the fee increasde forabout 187,000 students, along with more Pell awards and tax credits.
The system also plans to reduce enrollmentby 32,000 students for the 2010-201 1 school year by increasing grade point average requirements and closinbg spring 2010 enrollment and winter 2010 The university system, which has 450,000o students, said 86 percent of its operating budget goes to employee salaries and CSU hopes to furlough all employees two days per monthj to cut down on costs. Tuesday, the Californiaa State UniversityEmployees Union, whichb represents 16,000 non-academic workers, gave tentative agreementt to the plan. The 2,400 CSU membera of the Academic Professionale of California have agreed to negotiatwethe furloughs.
The California Faculty Association, whichb represents 23,000 faculty personnel, has not yet votexd on the furloughs.

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