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No plan for tuition increase at California State University, CFO says

California State University has no plans to hike tuition in 2020-21, the system’s chief financial officer Steve Relyea told trustees during a meeting Wednesday. He said that while the university could revisit the idea if economic conditions worsen, it would currently not be “appropriate” to do so.

Relyea’s comments come after Chancellor Tim White similarly said last week that the system was not considering a tuition increase. “We’ve taken a tuition increase off the table,” White said during a forum sponsored by the Public Policy Institute of California.

At a Board of Trustees meeting in May, several trustees encouraged the chancellor’s office not to recommend any increase in tuition, including Peter Taylor.