CBF articles

• College based fee increase in limbo Cal Poly President Warren Baker’s announcement last week to delay his approval for an increase of college-based fees (CBFs) came after a request by the California State University Chancellor’s Office, said Provost Robert Koob.
• Cal Poly President Warren Baker agreed to postpone his decision whether to raise College Based Fees (CBFs) after a request from California Education Chancellor Charles B. Reed following questions surrounding the CSU system budget.
• College based fee vote passes overwhelmingly: After a two-day period to submit an advisory vote on a proposal to increase college based fees, 47 percent of Cal Poly students voted on the CBF referendum with 78 percent voting for it and 22 percent against.
• Poly holds forum to discuss possible college fee increases: Two days before students cast an advisory vote on the proposed college-based fee increase, the university held a forum yesterday to discuss the referendum and answer student questions.
• Baker, Kramer answer questions about possible CBF increases:  Associated Students Inc. President Angela Kramer and Cal Poly President Warren Baker held a town-hall style forum to discuss issues including diversity and sustainability, but once the discussion turned to the CBF referendum – which students vote on today and Thursday – it never went back.
• Fee increase proposal puts Poly at a crossroads: Almost seven years after implementing college based fees as a supplement to regular tuition, Cal Poly now finds itself in the midst of a state budget crisis, and is looking to you – the students – to further help foot the bill of your own education.
• Fee raise passed by school, now pending student approval: The proposal to raise college-based fees (CBFs) moved a step forward Thursday when the Campus Fee Advisory Committee (CFAC) passed the proposal. Now it’s up to the students to decide.
• Poly considers raising student fees: In the wake of California’s deepening financial crisis and the $300 million cut from the CSU budget last year alone, Cal Poly administrators and deans of the university’s various colleges are proposing another increase in student fees beginning in spring of 2009.