A state judge in Manhattan has temporarily blocked the City University of New York from implementing a $300 tuition increase for the upcoming academic year. Three Lehman College seniors filed an action challenging a July 21 decision by the seven-member executive committee of the CUNY trustees to charge the added tuition. Full-time, in-state students currently pay $4,850 a year.
In Peruyero v. Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, 108549-2011, Acting Supreme Court Justice Eileen A. Rakower issued a temporary restraining order against the increase, saying students would be irreparably harmed if it went into effect. She scheduled an Aug. 30 appearance in the case. The state budget incorporates a $300 annual increase at CUNY and SUNY schools for each of five years beginning in 2011-12. But the students, represented by Ronald E. McGuire, argued that only the full CUNY board could vote to impose the increase, and its adoption by the board’s seven-member executive committee in July rendered the action a “nullity.”
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