Cal State Students Face Tuition Increase

Gov. Newsom is currently facing a major dilemma: sign Senate Bill 140 and raise the wages of underpaid Cal State staff, or refuse to sign and anger employees. The choice is not simple. The bill does NOT come with more state funding. Signing the bill could force Cal State University to raise tuition and make students cover the costs of wage increases. Our state should not be dealing with this issue in the first place! The pandemic has devastated many students and they do not deserve a tuition hike.

Instead, our state government needs to provide adequate funding for the wage hikes. We need to fund the Cal State system so that they are able to pay their employees WITHOUT dipping into their students’ pockets. Public education used to be free in California, and we must work on creating a more well funded and equitable system. 

Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters

Cal State says it can’t afford a staff wage hike even if Newsom OKs it

By Mikhail Zinshteyn, Cal Matters | 9/19/2022