Cal State Long Beach students are again looking at the possibility of another fee increase for the 1995-96 school year.
This year's proposal of a 10 percent increase will raise university fees to $1,740 a year.
When looking at fee fluxuations that have occurred during the past 10 years within the California State University system, fee increases are nothing new to CSU students.
During the 1984-85 school year, university fees were $573 for the entire semester, according to an information chart provided by Robyn Mack, CSULB's director of budget and human resources management. The $573 fee is less that the $792 fee CSU students currently pay per semester.
The $573 fee had been a 6 percent decrease from the previous year, when CSU students paid $612. CSU fees stayed at $573 for the next two years, according to the information chart.
In the 1987-88 school year, fees increased by 10 percent for CSU students to $630 a year, which averages to $315 a semester.
Since then, CSULB students and CSU students alike have had to deal with the uncertainty of not knowing whether their university fees would be raised from one year to the next.
The largest of the fee increases occurred in 1991-92 and 1992-93 school years, according to the information chart.
CSU fees were increased 20 percent in the 1991-92 school year, from $780 a year to $936 a year.
By the following year, there was a 38 percent increase, raising fees to $1,296 a year. That is an increase of $360.
During the past two years, the increases could be considered moderate compared to those of previous years Ñ an 11 percent increase in 1993-94, and a 10 percent increase this year.
Although most of the money students pay goes toward CSU fees, there are other fees that students pay, including Instructional Related Activities fees.
In the 1994 spring semester, CSULB students voted to increase IRA fees from $12.50 a semester to $25, A.S. President Suzie Aramesh said.
This was the first time in 10 years that there had been an increase in IRA fees, Aramesh said.
All of the money from IRA fees is used for activities for which students receive academic credit such as athletics, Aramesh explained.
Students may be wondering about whether there will be another university fee increase next year. Twenty-two state senators have stated that they would not approve another fee increase for the CSU system.