Almost every public institution is facing huge budget deficits these days and that includes higher education. But a proposal to impose a permanent, annual 6% increase in tuition at California State University is raising eyebrows across the state.
On Wednesday, the campus at Cal State East Bay was alive with activity as hundreds of potential transfer students arrived for an orientation event.
Nolan Calara, president of Cal State East Bay's Associated Students, said the plan is not going over so well for those who would be paying the bill. "Once the tuition increases, there's no way they're going to go back to a lower tuition," he said."Even though there's a consultation every five years, it still doesn't make me secure as a student that they're going to actually stop this six percent increase every year."
Parent Antonio Gamez understands that feeling, after sending his son Bobby through Cal State East Bay.
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