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City Tuition Jacked Up

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Review of Cyril J. Barker's "CUNY tuition jacked up," New York Amsterdam Times, 102(48), 1-35. How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? There are few solutions, creative or otherwise, available to students in New York City as a result of recent tuition hikes. The decision to increase tuition rates for some New York City's colleges was met with protests, cancellation of classes, and the arrests of hundreds of students and supporters following the announcement. The amount of the tuition increase, about $1,500 a year (a whopping 30 percent increase according to one student interviewed for the article), appears to have been the last straw for many of these protestors who have witnessed their tuition increase time and again in recent years. The tuition hikes were the result of a new law authorizing the increases enacted in 2012 in response to increasing costs at the state's educational institutions. The increases are effective through 2015, and are being imposed statewide. Critics of the tuition hike argue that it is just another step towards the complete privatization of the state's colleges which are being turned into elitist institutions by City University of New York (CUNY) Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. Although the tuition hikes were authorized by the New York state legislature, there were no alternatives to the hike advanced by the legislature or the administrators of the state's colleges. How might you

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