Are the huge 32% fee increases approved by the Regents in November, 2009 large enough to compensate for Governor Schwarzenegger’s ongoing cuts to the UC (and CSU) budgets?
A. No. Even if there are no further cuts in state support for higher education, substantial continuing tuition increases will be necessary just to get the quality of a UC education back to where it was a few years ago. In the 2007 “Futures” report, the Academic Senate estimated that a “public funding freeze” would require tuition to increase to $15-17,000 a year. The governor has cut support for higher education well below the levels in the most pessimistic scenario in the Futures report, so, absent a change in the governor’s budget priorities, students and their families should brace for continuing large tuition increases, continued declines in quality or both. Learn more and comment.
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