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The California State University system raised student fees by 20 percent in July as part of a budget plan that would also shrink enrollment and furlough nearly all employees for two days a month. The Board of Trustees voted 17-1 to raise undergraduate fees by $672 a year to $4,827 in the nation’s largest four-year university system, which has about 450,000 students. Even with the increases, which begin this fall, undergraduate fees at CSU remain less than those at most comparable universities but more than twice the amount students paid seven years ago. Under Chancellor Charles B. Reed’s budget plan, student enrollment would be reduced by 40,000 during the next two years. Earlier this summer, the university closed admissions for the winter and spring 2010 terms.