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I'm attending CSU Dominguez Hills.  They have a "second baccalaureate"
program for people who are already college graduates.

There was one proposal to raise the tuition 40%.  There were a lot of
protest meetings and petitions.  As California tries to get the state
budget balanced, they have to cut expenses somewhere.

I think CSU DH is mainly reducing the number of classes.  Long Beach may
be dropping a few departments.

When I started the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1952, the tuition
was $125 per semester.  The 1992 CSU DH Tuition and fees were about
$550.  That's up just slightly over a factor of four. In short, the
fees seem relatively cheap to me compared to other price increases.

I'm sure there is plenty of blame to go around.  What's particularly
annoying to me is that there was a distribution of the surplus from the
State of CA a few years ago.  Now they're hopelessly out of balance.

Part of the problem is Prop 13 and the fact that the state began to
subsidize the local school districts for the money they had lost.
Still, CA has a relatively high sales tax and a relatively high income
tax and they still can't make ends meet :-(
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Maurice Suhre
suhre@trwrb.dsd.trw.com