When trustees say they had no choice but to brutalize tens of thousands of students, their claims are undercut by their lax budget management
. The harsh impact of this on students and their families was downplayed by CSU officials who say financial aid will continue to cover the entire tuition costs of some 60 percent of the 460,000 students in the CSU system. But that still hammers the other 40 percent — more than 180,000 students — most of whom do not come from affluent families. Given the
that nearly 50,000 CSU students are homeless and that 90,000-plus are “food insecure,” trustees’ decision can be fairly described as a brutal blow to those they’re supposed to care the most about.To be clear, what CSU plans to do isn’t remotely as galling as what UC did — which was nothing less than a secretive betrayal of its responsibilities to California high school students.
But by far the biggest increase in costs has come in employee pay and benefits, which eat up more than 70 percent of the budget in the nation’s largest public university system. While much attention has been paid to the sharp compensation increases given to CSUin recent years, total costs have gone up far more in another employment category.
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