CSU hikes tuition, boost president’s salary
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee
Minutes after voting to raise student tuition by 12 percent for the fall, California State University trustees on Tuesday decided the salary for a new campus president should be $100,000 greater than his predecessor’s.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a board member who voted against both the tuition increase and the compensation package, told his colleagues that the university would damage its public image by raising salary and tuition on the same day.
“I caution us today with these two decisions and I feel compelled to make this point,” Newsom said. “There are plenty of people watching, and people we need as supporters.”
The tuition increase adds an additional 12 percent on top of a 10 percent increase approved last year. Combined, the two increases bring undergraduate tuition at CSU’s 23 campuses to $5,472 a year.
That’s an increase of about 23 percent compared with last year, and does not include campus-based fees that average $950 a year.