SUPPORT SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT RIGHTS FOR AN AFFORDABLE PUBLIC COLLEGE EDUCATION—FREEDOM FROM FEES

Please Sign our petition in support of students and their families,
and pledge to boycott future donations to Sonoma State University if the fee is not rescinded. *

Sonoma State University (SSU) President Ruben Armiñana is preparing to announce the imposition of a $500 annual fee increase for all students in the fall of 2014. The proposed increase is called a “Success Fee” and would supposedly be used for more classes. The timing of the fee announcement comes just days after the ending of a registration crisis where many hundreds of students could not get the classes they need for graduation. Before 2011, fee increases required a campus wide student vote. The CSU Trustees now allow campus Presidents to impose fees with campus consultation only. In 1996, students at SSU voted down a proposed $300 fee increase by a 2/3 margin.

Top reasons to Oppose New Fees at Sonoma State University

State University (SSU) receives more than enough money from the State of California to provide classes for all students to graduate in a timely manner. However, the money has been mismanaged by the President through a bloated administration, the diversion of campus resources to the management of the Green Music Center, and failure to use money from campus profit making enterprises to support classroom instruction.
SSU students already pay the third highest fees of the 23 CSU campuses. A $500 increase would put SSU as the highest cost liberal arts campus in the entire California State University (CSU) only slightly behind California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

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