THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO SINCE 1965
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2024/25, Issue #3
Another Ball Drop
November 24, 2024
Students on the Frontline
The CSU Tuition Increase will Burden the Average Student Jesus Medrano is the founder of and organizer with the SATHStudents Against Tuition Hike at CSUSB. He also works as an intern for Students for Quality Education. These growing groups are formed across multiple CSU campuses and exploring ways to raise awareness about the factors affecting the quality of education. Students are no longer remaining silent about the ongoing changes being implemented...
Page 3 More than the Game How One Ex-Athlete is Redefining Life After Softball
Students holding up signs during a rally outside of the CSU Board Trustees in Long Beach, California on September 12, 2023. (Photo by Trisha Anas)
By Juliana Tellez Staff Writer The California State University (CSU) has made the decision to annually raise their tuition by 6% for the next five years. A 15-5 vote by the CSU Board of Trustee has brought forward a series of complaints from students and faculty. This is a result of a desperate attempt to maintain academic quality and financial stability. In response, students and faculty have been left questioning whether CSU truly cares about its core mission of providing affordable and accessible education to students. The California State University is known to play an important role for individuals. Cal Matters often refers to this as a “dream engine” turned into a “nightmare scenario” with its new tuition increase. Many individuals that attend these colleges are often first-generation students from low income backgrounds, and are students of color, making
it difficult to get by this system without feeling any sort of financial pressure. The cost of quality education, need for more faculty, support services, mental health professionals, and new infrastructure, has had a major impact on CSU’s decision to increase tuition annually. In recent years, CSU has faced over $40 million in annual cost due to new protocols for ways to handle sexual misconduct cases, making them
unavoidable expenses and in actuality are in demand for additional resources. Without the revenue that CSU is used to, the CSU Board states that the quality of education will surely decrease for all students, especially among Black, Latino, and Native American students. In order to avoid a decrease in graduation rates and low quality education, CSU is hoping to generate $148 million in its first year with the tuition increase. According
to CSU, 60% of students who already receive coverage to pay off full tuition are believed to be able to continue to do so, while another 18% of these students aren’t believed to see a major change in their financial burden. Furthermore, a new grant has been introduced for middle-class students in order to provide some financial relief for some students and families.
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Page 10 Lo otro de la razón
Jesús Conill (Profesor de filosofía en Valencia) publicó un libro en 2021 acerca de las genealogías de la razón, y presenta en su libro algunas preguntas retadoras, a saber: ¿Vale la pena hablar de la razón a estas alturas de la historia? ¿No es más importante tener poder que tener razón?
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