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From the Chancellor's Office: Your tuition is going up again! That's right. At the board meeting, held the week before Thanksgiving 2011, the CSU Board of Trustees approved a $498 per year undergraduate tuition increase, effective fall 2012. Here's some of the other highlights from the CSUEB University Communique: *The CSU Board of Trustees adopted the 2012-13 budget *The CSU Board requests state lawmakers provide an additional $333 million in funding. *Approximately $64 million in revenue would come from tuition fee revenues associated with enrollment growth of 5 percent (approx 20,000 students) *Tuition for full time undergraduates would rise to $5,970 from $5472 in fall 2012. *Approximately 45 percent of the CSU's undergraduates would not pay the tuition fee increase due to grants or aid. According to cappex.com 63 percent of CSUEB students receive financial aid. *Households earning $70,000 or less qualify for financial aid. It ...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed published an article entitled, " Researchers RateMyProfessors, and Find It Useful, if not Chili-Pepper Hot ." The research "suggests the popular service is a more useful barometer of instructor quality than you might think, at least in the aggregate. And the study, the latest of several indicating RateMyProfessors should not be dismissed, raises questions about how universities should deal with a site whose ratings have been factored into Forbes magazine's college rankings and apparently even into some universities' personnel evaluations." Another study cited in the article, "concluded that the site's evaluations 'closely matched students' real-life concerns about the quality of instruction in the classroom. The paper added, 'While issues such as personality and appearance did enter into the postings, these were secondary motivators compared to more salient issues such as competence, knowledge, clarity...

Students at CSU don't have to be told that their dollar isn't going as far as it used to when it comes to obtaining a college education. For a larger image click here. According to this graphic, student tuition has risen 106 percent since 1998. Full-time faculty salaries are down 10 percent while administration pay is up 20 to 23 percent. Full-time versus Part-time Most would assume an institution of higher learning would be made up of full-time teachers, but according to the CSU , in 2010 only 35 percent of full-time employees are faculty. In raw numbers the CSU employs 11,227 full-time faculty (teachers) and 20,459 full-time executives/administrators, secretaries, paraprofessionals, skilled crafts persons, and maintenance workers. But the CSU also employs 11,198 part-time employees and most of them are your teachers: in fact, 9,701. Just 1,497 part-timers make up the ranks of the administration and support staff. In other words, part-time instructors m...

Every life has its bmups, errr, I mean bumps, but don't let these basic grammar and spelling mistakes be one of them. One of these errors on a resume can cost you a job. Already have a job? Well, these blunders used often enough in emails or other interoffice communications will keep you on the bottom rung of the ladder. Leslie Ayers at Free Republic offers seven grammar and spelling mistakes that will make you looks stupid. Here is Leslie's top 4: You're / Your The apostrophe means it's a contraction of two words; "you're" is the short version of "you are" (the "a" is dropped), so if your sentence makes sense if you say "you are," then you're good to use you're. "Your" means it belongs to you, it's yours. * You're = if you mean "you are" then use the apostrophe * Your = belonging to you Correct Example: You're going to love your new job! It's / Its This one...