CSU hikes tuition, and boosts a president's salary by $100,000

[FreakinDJ]

Source: Laurel Rosenhall

CSU hikes tuition, and boosts a president's salary by $100,000

Minutes after voting to raise student tuition by 12 percent for the fall, California State University trustees on Tuesday decided the salary for a new campus president should be $100,000 greater than his predecessor's.

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a board member who voted against both the tuition increase and the compensation package, told his colleagues that the university would damage its public image by raising salary and tuition on the same day.

"I caution us today with these two decisions and I feel compelled to make this point," Newsom said. "There are plenty of people watching, and people we need as supporters."

The tuition increase adds an additional 12 percent on top of a 10 percent increase approved last year. Combined, the two increases bring undergraduate tuition at CSU's 23 campuses to $5,472 a year.




Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/13/3765602/csu-hikes-tuition-and-boosts-a.html

[LiberalEsto]

1. It's $8416 a year at the University of Maryland

and $7,656 at Towson State University here in Maryland.

My alma mater, Rutgers University in New Jersey, currently charges $9926. When I attended Livingston College at Rutgers, tuition was $500 a year plus about $130 in student fees. What they charge now is disgraceful.

I hate seeing tuition increases anywhere, but California students pay far less than those in Maryland and New Jersey.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Add it all together Calif University $22,865 per year

http://facts.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate_cost_of_attendance.lasso

[LeftyMom]

4. That's for the UC system, not CSU

CSU fees are lower to begin with, and housing is less of a factor because more students are commuters than residents.

[FreakinDJ]

7. The dollar amounst I posted are for "Living at Home"

check the link I posted in my reply - that is from UC Davis

[Adsos Letter]

9. LeftyMom had it right; there's a big differnce between the UC and CSU systems.

Both in cost and degree value. The UC also provides Doctoral programs, which only one CSU (I think) does.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. And UC and CSU are different

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University#Differences_between_the_CSU_and_UC_systems

UC Davis tuition fees, in your link, were $13,082 this year. The CSU tuition fees are going up by 22% to $5,472.

[abelenkpe]

3. So wrong. Nt

[yurbud]

5. I've seen this pattern in community colleges. Overpaying administrators serves a purpose:

it creates psychological distance between them and faculty, and makes it easier for them to think of and treat us like interchangeable ''burger flippers'' (as one CC vice president put it).

[somone]

6. A private jet for every college president

to complete the corporate model

[aquart]

8. Oh, look. Tuition hikes to pay the CEO. What a shock.