Students, faculty and staff protest a potential tuition increase across the California State University system.
Credit: Michael Lee-Chang / Students for Quality Education
California State University trustees will decide this week on whether students will see a 6% tuition rate increase over the next five years.
But ahead of their Wednesday vote, the nation’s largest public university system has already tweaked the proposal: Any tuition rate increase will sunset after five years and be reevaluated for the 2029-30 academic year.
The proposal would go into effect in the fall 2024 semester and affect the system’s 460,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The first increase would be $342 for full-time undergraduate students.
Last year, CSU assembled a work group to examine sustainable funding in the 23-campus system and found the costs of operating the university system exceeded its revenues. The work group also…
