INSANITY:  California continues to live in its own world.  From Fox:

California's public university system is looking to increase its tuition for the 2024-2025 school year.

According to California State University's website, the university is considering a "multi-year tuition proposal." The website states that the proposal is a "revenue sustainability plan for system-wide tuition, nonresident tuition and the graduate business professional program fee."

"The CSU’s first priority and commitment continues to be to pursue full funding from the state and to collaborate with partners across the system to make the case in Sacramento for the level of new funding that supports student success," a statement on the proposal reads.

The proposal would impose an annual 6% tuition increase that is projected to "generate hundreds of millions of dollars."

The proposal is expected to generate $148 million in revenue in the first year. CSU officials also plan to use that revenue to allocate $49 million to CSU’s State University Grant (SUG) program, a financial aid support program for low-income students. 

Furthermore, the proposal would generate $840 million in revenue over five years.
The first increase in the 2024-25 academic year would be $342 for full-time undergraduate students.

Under the proposal, full-time undergraduate students would increase tuition from $5,742 to $6,084 in the first year. After that, tuition would increase by 6% each subsequent year, resulting in a full-time undergraduate student paying $7,682 a year by the 2028-2029 academic year. 

Along with the tuition increase, trustees will evaluate the increases every five years. 

The LA Times reported, "Cal State officials say the hike is necessary to contend with a nearly $1.5-billion budget gap across the 23-campus system. A report released in May found Cal State is significantly underfunded, with its two main revenue sources — the state and tuition — covering only 85% of what it needs for student services, academic support, instruction and other expenses in the 2021-2022 year."

COMMENT:  It might be nice, just for appearances sake, for some of these scholar/empire builders to suggest cuts in personnel and expenses.  The University of California system is overflowing with administrators, many of whom are employed in the equity business.   The profound "educators" might even consider eliminating departments that seem to exist more for propaganda purposes than educational ends.

I doubt if there'll be any meaningful cuts.  California has gone socialist, and the heart of socialism is huge government spending.  I have no doubt that we'll soon see immense scholarship programs for undocumented immigrants.  And there will be vast checks written for all kinds of ethnic projects.  I wonder what will happen to physics, chemistry and medicine.  Maybe I don't want to know.

July 12,  2023