Imagine a society that spends more money on keeping its prison system alive rather than educating their citizens. Imagine a society where you soon might have more youth spending time behind bars than behind the desk. There is no need to imagine this kind of society; this is our reality. The United States – especially California, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country – needs to reconsider its priorities when it comes to funding public education… Read more

A letter from the CSU will be sent out beginning Oct. 1 to prospective students, warning them that decisions to admit will be delayed until after Proposition 30 is voted on in November. The letter will be sent through the CSUMentor system and distributed by the admissions office of each campus. The CSU maintains that the letter is not to encourage support for the proposition, but to inform applicants that there will be an added wait time to enrollment. “We’re… Read more

                                        Many members of the editorial staff at the Daily Sundial have attended CSUN for at least four years. A few of us are graduate students. Like many of you, we have seen our tuition double since we started our education. We have seen classes get cut while unit caps were established. This has resulted in fewer students enrolled in our… Read more

It’s no secret that the government is attacking the higher education system in California with budget cuts and penalty fees. Last month, students at UC Riverside released a proposal to fix the education crisis; students would attend University of California schools with no upfront charges and upon employment after graduation, they would pay 5 percent of their income for 20 years. This radical idea may be students’ only hope. For the past several years, students have peaceably protested up and… Read more

Tuition and fees for CSUN have increased by over 43 percent the last few years due in part to budget cuts, making it the ninth largest growth for a public, four-year university in the country. The cost for attending CSUN skyrocketed from $3,350 in 2007 to $4,801 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Costs are continuing to go up. CSU Board of Trustees approved a 10 percent increase in tuition for Fall 2011, addressing the $500 million… Read more

Updated 7/2 Gov. Jerry Brown signed a balanced budget that will reduce state funding to the California State University by at least $150 million Thursday and will likely lead to tuition hikes for fall 2011. The additional $150 million will come on top of $500 million in cuts enacted in March, totaling $650 million. CSUN anticipates their share of the cuts to be about $46 million, according to the campus budget webpage. CSU Board of Trustees will meet July 12… Read more

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a budget proposal drafted by Democrats in the Legislature last Thursday that would cut billions in state funding, including an additional $150 million from the CSU. Senate Bill 69 and Assembly Bill 98 were sent back to the Legislature without approval from Brown after the budget was found to be unbalanced, continuing big deficits for years to come and adding billions of dollars of new debt, he said in a statement. Chancellor Charles Reed agreed the… Read more