Increase of Tuition Over Years

HCOM 266 History of DemocracyProfessor Joe

By: Belle MunozLupe BecerraGabriel ByrdArturo Rios

Leonardo Aguilar Valdez

Video

-The video was filmed at CSUMB. Students got together and spoke about their own struggles to pay for college and tried to stop new tuition increases.

-Library action also occured to get more library hours sooner. (Peete's isn't enough room for everyone working on finals, plus when it gets crowded the noise makes it hard to concentrate.)

Library action

CSU Tuition Increase

-Millions of students in CSU system affected by increase.

-Tuition increased from $1,428 in 2001/2002 to $5,472 in Fall 2011.

-CSU system increased fees at annual average of 15%.

-Increase necessary to budget needs of the CSU.

CSU Tuition Increase-State funding reductions led to

two tuition fees increases in 2009/10.

-In June 2010, tuition fee increased another 5 %.

-Winter/Spring 2011 bumped to $4,440.

-2011/12 bumped to $5,472.

-Fall 2012 raised to $5,970

CSU Tuition Increase Fastest In Nation

-2008-09 academic year to the 2010-11 CSU Long Beach and CSU Chico tuition increase at least 40%.

-CSU system has implemented layoffs to faculty.

CSU Students Go On Hunger Strike-13 students in CSU system

engaged in a hunger strike.

-Students pledged to go without solid food for week until school officials place a five year moratorium on tuition increases.

-SQE have organized strikes responses to the CSU spring events, such as admission freezes, tuition increases, etc.

CSU Students Go On Hunger Strike-CSU system soar by

over 31% since 2002.

-CSU Chancellor Charles Reed himself earns $421,500 and $30,000 annual "Supplement".

-National average loans debt stand at $24,000 and 50% unemployment rate.

CSU Tuition from 1999-2013

Inflation and Actual Results

Percentages in Increase of Tuition

Background and Historical Information

- Tuition has increased drastically in all CSU and UC'S.

- We are paying more for less.

- Our tuition increased and Charles Reed's paycheck did too.

-Taxation and education

Reasons Behind Tuition Increase

Inflation

Newer technologies

Increased cost of living

Government cuts to education

Inflation

Inflation

•Over the past couple of decades the value of the US dollar has gone down substantially and as such its buying power has decreased.

•With the decreased buying power the amount of money required to get most materials and services has gone up.

•As such the tuition required would obviously need to go up in order to compensate for the increased cost of providing those materials.

Newer Technologies

Newer Technology

•As the technology of our time gets more advanced, it also gets more expensive. As such the schools in order to stay up to date with their tech and stay competitive, need to buy newer tech.

•With limited initial funds, there are only a few other ways of obtaining the required additional funds.

•One of those ways would be tuition increase, which in the end does make sense as the students are one of the main benefactors of the updated tech.

Increased cost of living

Increased cost of living

•As the cost of living goes up in California the CSU system needs to raise the pay of their employees to make sure that they can support themselves.

•In view of the past cuts to the education funding, in order to keep up with labor costs there needs to be an additional influx of funding, and once again there are only a few ways in order to gain those funds in the short time that they are necessary.

Government cuts to education

Government cuts to education

•Over the past couple of decades the government funding of education has dropped significantly as the country has been going through its financial crisis.

•These cuts have left most schools throughout the country having to both cut classes, lay off teachers, and decrease the length of the school year repeatedly.

•These cuts have also hit the CSU system hard as well, and in order to stay competitive as schools the CSUs can not afford to drop as many classes and professors as they would need to, to keep up with the budget cuts.

Cont.

•As such it leaves the system with only a few options to bridge the gap in the funding, and one of the most reliable methods of obtaining income is through tuition increases.

Organizations Major Actors for Different Sides of Issue

President Obama: "Obama wants to make it easier for everyone to go to college". He wants to expand the federal Pell Grant. To help for students from lower-income families to go to college and from potentially get jobs. He plans to determine whether these colleges provide enough graduates who have jobs fresh out of college.

Another Major Actor...Mitt Romney: Romney's plan was to make information

on schools and majors more accessible to students. He was also planning to cut federal Pell Grant funding to students, leaving many low-income students without these funds. In addition, Romney is in favor of "for-profit" schools creating their own loans. According to an Aug.26 Reuters article by Stephanie Simon, Romney believes that this creates competition between "for-profit" schools which would lower cost of education in the long run.

Explain the Position We're Taking

" Having an educated population is better than having an non-educated population"

• we are AGAINST tuition increases

• Came to college to learn, not be in debt.

• people drop out

• take out too many loans

• quality of school (what we pay isn't what we get out of it)

"Action" Component

-What objectives do you/did you plan to achieve?

*our object: to show awareness that just because we are students; doesn't mean we do not have a say. We want to stand up and fight for what is right because students are the ones being mainly hurt by these tuition increases.

"Action" Component continue

"Action" Component

action and components

What actions will you/did you take to achieve those objectives.

*we made a twitter and facebook account to bring awareness.

* Library Rebellion (24/7)

*Protested

Other Topics- Important, Relevant, or Helpful.

• (Lupe) The university system seems to be making business out of the students.

• (Belle) "We all have a voice, so we need to stand together as ONE in order to be heard"

Pictures

Questions?-What is your opinion on tuition increase?

-How many people are taking out student loans already?

-Who knows how much is unemployment rate for undergraduate students that graduate?

-How many would collaborate with SQE to protest against tuition increase?

-How bad would our kids get affected by tuition increase? Will you like to pay for their high tuition? Plus then finishing our student loans?

Questions for us????

Reference

-http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/education/

-http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad?afid=p219%7CGOUS&cid=AOS-US-KWG-HOLIDAYFY13

-http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/DecadeInflation.asp

-http://www.gallup.com/poll/145790/americans-oppose-cuts-education-social-security-defense.aspx

-http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education

-http://catalog.csumb.edu/university-organization/csu-system/trustees

-http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/24/pf/college/public-college-tuition/index.html