Petition: Reject Current Student Success Fees

SQE has another petition underway to try and staunch the latest round of fees and would-be fees. Here’s a summary of the situation: The CSU has attempted to raise fees every year for over a decade regardless of circumstances and in many cases justifying increases on speculation rather than research. The most recent attempt, Student Success Fees, has been in defiance of Governor Brown’s 4 year moratorium on tuition fee hikes for the CSU. And here is Students for Quality Education’s suggestions (nine total) : 1. 50% +1 of entire student body has to participate in vote. 2. A “Yes”...

New Petition: Teachers Before Administrators

The California Faculty Association has a new petition that hopes to quell the increase of administrative salaries which have grown exponentially over the years. Given the nature of public education resources, this has a good deal to squelch other places where funding might be going, such as schools, classrooms, and educators. Here’s a blurb: Between 2007-2013, the number of high-level administrators, all making six figure salaries, grew by 19.2% while the number of full-time faculty was cut by 3%. This new CSU “1%”of administrators and managers have seen salary increases of 24%, and the average campus president’s salary has risen...