Following the effects of the pandemic on the local economy, Dr. Barbara Sirotnik, the director of the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis and a statistics professor for the College of Business and Public Administration, discusses the background and solutions for local businesses affected by the quarantine protocols from COVID-19. Q: How do you see this pandemic affecting our local economy? A: Through the Institute of Applied Research, we do a lot of different research and one of them is a monthly economic forecast. More recently, I have been working closely with the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (I.E.E.P). They are trying to help businesses in the region. After the … [Read more...] about Q & A with Dr. Sirotnik on COVID-19’s impact on the local economy
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California has the highest tuition increase in the nation
By Kara Dement |Staff Writer| California once was considered to have the best-value public universities in the world according to Justin Pope of the Associated Press. California has seen the highest tuition increase in the nation while the CSU’ system has specifically gone up 21 percent; which is the largest in any state according to a source on calstate.edu. The CSU Board of Trustees raised the CSU tuition for this fall by 12 percent . This increase went into effect for not just CSUSB but the remaining 22 CSU schools as well. The average annual cost was raised for full-time undergraduates by $588 to $5,472 which is more than triple what students used to pay. Pope reported … [Read more...] about California has the highest tuition increase in the nation