In Long Beach on Wednesday, Cal State University trustees are expected to approve a plan to raise undergraduate tuition 5 percent as part of a contingency plan should Proposition 30 on the November ballot fail to pass. Chancellor Charles Reed defended the move, which passed the trustees' finance committee yesterday on a vote of 6-1, the one dissenter being the student trustee.
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