The California State University Board of Trustees ratified its Committee on Finance’s approval of a 10 percent increase in the tuition fee for the university’s Doctor of Education degree programs for the 2011-12 academic year.

The trustees voted Wednesday, Jan. 26.

Beginning in fall 2011, tuition fees at California State University, Fresno, and the other 10 CSU campuses with these doctoral programs tuition fees will increase by $954 annually to a total of $10,500. The degrees are the first independent doctorates in CSU history after many years of awarding joint doctorates with University of California campuses.

Fresno State’s first cohort in the independent Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership received their degrees in spring 2010.

For more information, visit http://www.calstate.edu/pa/News/2011/Release/EdDTuitionIncrease.shtml.

Program information: http://www.csufresno.edu/dpelfs/