After the increase in fee the California State University system will face angry students Thursday at a trustee meeting. According to the Los Angeles Times, students will be coming together Thursday in Long Beach to protest recent student fees. The fee in question is the Student Success Fee. This increased fee would help hire more campus faculty, and advisers, as well as to help fund athletic programs. The CSU system took severe cuts to funding and a moratorium passed by California Legislature banned new fees until 2016. To make up for all the cuts and limitations the trustees voted to raise the Student Success Fee. Students are outraged that the fee would increase to $800 went the fee was originally only $30.
According to the Los Angeles Times the California State University system also wants to launch an online yearbook to highlight that they have reached 3 million living alumni. There will also be a scholarship to encourage graduates to make a profile in the online yearbook. The scholarship would be of $10,000. Trustees will also be talking about budgets and executive pay increase. Students might have more to complain about now and not just the $800 Student Success Fee.
Link: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trustees-20141112-story.html
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