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CUNY approves tuition increase as students, faculty protest

The Board of Trustees of CUNY voted for a 5 percent tuition increase on Monday.

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Published: Monday, November 22, 2010

Updated: Monday, November 22, 2010 23:11

Tuition Hike Protest cops 11-22-10

Denis Gostev I The Ticker

Security guards push protesters out of the Vertical Campus.

Tuition Hike Protest 11-22-10

Denis Gostev I The Ticker

Students started protesting before the Board of Trustees Meeting at Baruch College on Monday.

The Board of Trustees of CUNY today approved a 5 percent increase in tuition at a meeting held at Baruch College, to the chagrin of angry students and employees, who gathered at the school to protest the hike.

The tuition increase is an attempt by CUNY to close a budget deficit that has caused $2.5 million in cuts for its senior colleges since 2009, according to the University. Students from numerous CUNY campuses gathered at Baruch's 25th Street entrance between Lexington and 3rd Avenues before the meeting to protest what will be the second hike in less than a year.

Despite the commotion, the Board voted to increase the tuition for full-time students at senior colleges by $115 and $75 for those at community colleges, effective fall 2011.

"These tuition increases are unfortunate but necessary for the University to continue to provide the high quality educational opportunity our students deserve," Chancellor Goldstein said.

The measure passed Monday evening with only one opposing vote, that of Cory Provost, the only student member of the Board of Trustees.

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10 comments

Anonymous
Wed Feb 9 2011 04:56
I agree with whoever said that the angry students and employees should take it up a notch through the methods he or she suggested. If it worked for the people of Egypt, it'll work for the students, too!
Anonymous
Wed Feb 9 2011 04:54
I think the angry students and employees should take it up a notch. It's obvious CUNY doesn't give a damn about the students if it still goes head with its plans amid protests from angry students and employees. It also looks like the security guards have become the enforcers of the corrupt Board of Trustees of CUNY.

Keep up the protests. Inform, educate, and recruit other students and employees to get involved (and they will because it affects them too). Spread the message through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Post videos about the issue on YouTube. MAKE IT VIRAL. Put these rich and selfish elitists back in their place until they start working and representing the students again. If not, DEMAND they be taken off the Board - PERMANENTLY.

Anonymous
Tue Jan 25 2011 23:27
comparing public to private... that's what got us into this mess
Anonymous
Mon Jan 3 2011 19:35
Don't forget that today's CUNY tuition, even with a hike pales in comparison to private schools. The annual cost of tuition increase per year is greater than CUNY tuition altogether. (Lets say $50,000/semester = $100,000/year x 3-5% increase = $3,000 to 5,000 increase)
Mr. kennedy
Wed Dec 8 2010 17:31
DEATH TO SOCIALISM!
Peter
Thu Nov 25 2010 13:20
There are 20 cops for 10 protesters - completely unnecessary. This is not England, no one was breaking anything.
Anonymous
Thu Nov 25 2010 01:08
take a look at the deficit in NYS, we shouldn't be surprised. if you think those people from the board care about students' well being and education, then you are dead wrong. bottom line is by the end of the day, all they are doing is running the lips, smooth talking while sucking money out of us who don't even have full employment yet. and education is only a small part of the problem -- just a reflection of the incompetency and ignorance of those "wise-ones"
Anonymous
Tue Nov 23 2010 17:02
Education is a fundamental right but not on record or as apart of our public policy. Just as our federal government can spend billions on wars they should also put our taxes to federally funding education. In an unequal society we must balance out resources so education is not concentrated to the rich
Anonymous
Tue Nov 23 2010 13:35
In the middle of the Great Depression when everyone was broke, the several City colleges were tuition free.

Frank Neuwirth

Anonymous
Tue Nov 23 2010 12:02
Many students were actually barred from getting into the meeting, which was full of administrators and cops dressed as administrators. The rest of the students were ultimately kicked out for "disruption." Shame on this crooked board.






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