The start of the fall semester comes hard for the students of CSUN. Through out the summer the students have been receiving email updating us about the budget crises and the schools reaction to including the raise of fees. During the month of July students got a email informing them about the increase of tuition. Once you take all the increases of tuition the students of CSUN had to pay a additional of 30% since last spring semester. I remember last spring I paid around 1900.00 for over 6 units as a undergrad, this semester I had to pay $2400.00 for over 6 units as a undergrad. Looking at the increase I'm looking at how am I going to buy books?
However the tuition is not the only thing students had to deal with at the beginning. Another problem was the lack of classes and trying to add into a class. Usually if a professor has the seats they will add the students. However that was not the case this semester, professors could only add students if they had the openings in the computer. This lead to many students trying to fight for sports, crash number of classes, and hope that others would drop just so they could add the classes they needed. This was a big problem that I see growing for the next semester if things do not change, with the school having less classes for all the students. How do they expect us to graduate if we cant get into the classes we need??? That is a big question around campus.
One other big thing this semester is the so called furlough days and the teachers working 10% less. The Professors here got a 10% pay decrease and were told to do 10% less in their classes. That and the professors mandated to take a few furlough days where they just don't come in to class and teach. Not having class can be nice but at the same time this is not right making the professors miss days. This all seems wrong, we as students are paying 30% more for our education and were getting 10% less of a education because of what the state has done. This needs to be changed!!!! The problems of congress should NOT be taken out on the students and their education. We need to do something for things to change.
I Know CSUN is not the only school having this problem we the students and the public need to come together in order to see a change in what the government is doing to our states school system. GET THE WORD OUT WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
