10:46am | Add another tuition hike to the pile that have been passed by the California State University system in the past twelve months, as the 23-campus higher education system continues an attempt to pull itself out of hundreds of millions in state budget cuts.
This hike, though, applies only to specific students and not the general population. Students seeking a Doctor of Education degree (EdD) will see their tuition increase by 10-percent for the 2011-12 academic year. That equates to a $954 annual raise and a total of $10,500 per year. The CSU says that about 700 students are currently enrolled in the program at 11 campuses, including California State University Long Beach.
The EdD is aimed at training future administrators in state public schools and community colleges.
The CSU is authorized by state law to increase the tuition level to that adopted by the UC Regents, which comes to $11,064 for 2011-12. But the board of trustees on Tuesday elected instead to raise the tuition by 10-percent to equal late 2010 tuition hikes on graduate and undergraduate students.
In that decision, a 10-percent increase was approved for the 2010-11 school year while the CSU hopes that the State budget will buyout revenue needed to avoid tuition hikes in 2011-12. If that doesn’t happen, and it likely won’t, then there will be yet another 10-percent increase put into effect and I’m glad that I graduated in 2008.