CSU trustees raise tuition 9% as students protest

11-17-2011

By Nanette Asimov/San Francisco Chronicle

California State University trustees raised tuition by 9 percent Wednesday, even as CSU police used pepper spray and clashed violently with protesters who had been escorted from the system's Long Beach headquarters. A glass door shattered when protesters tried to get back into the building, and police inside pushed back. One officer was sent to the hospital, and four protesters, including three CSU students, were arrested, CSU officials said. The trustees raised tuition for the second time this year, voting 9-6 for the increase. They made the decision in a room by themselves after exiting an auditorium where protesters from the ReFund California Coalition - a grouping of students, labor, activists and others aligned with the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement - had interrupted proceedings. (more...)

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