Posted on 11/19/2009 7:49:25 AM PST by SmithL
Amid rowdy protests, a committee of the University of California regents voted Wednesday to raise student fees by 32 percent in two steps over the next year, bringing the annual cost of a UC education above $10,000 not including room, board or books.
Today, the full board is scheduled to vote on the plan, which also includes increases in financial aid.
Fourteen protesters – out of about 500 – were arrested at UCLA, where regents held their meeting. Roughly 1,000 protesters rallied at UC Berkeley, according to campus officials, and 300 demonstrated at UC Santa Cruz.
"Look at all these students who are here begging you to not raise the fees," a UCLA student said to the board. "We cannot afford it."
College students across the country are paying higher tuitions, as state coffers shrink with the weak economy. But nowhere are the increases as extreme as in California, said Pat Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
UC's latest fee increase would put it in line with increases at California's other higher education systems. This summer, the California State University system raised fees by 32 percent, and community college fees went up 30 percent.
In the rest of the country, Callan said, public universities are increasing fees by an average of 6.5 percent.
"California will be by far the most draconian as far as raising fees and turning people away," he said.
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Hey kids, how’s that hopeychange working out for you?
Educating all those illegal’s cost money don’t you know?
Awwwwwwwwwww. Maybe the kids will rethink the value of those political science and ethnic studies degrees now, hmmmm?
Don’t worry, the PLA will be able to still afford to send their kids to a UC campus near you.
The UC Regents
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/
Sounds kind regal, huh?
They are at the end of a whip
that beats california families and taxpayers
relentlessly like a drum
With folk like Richard Blum (DiFi’s hubby), Bonnie Reiss (former Gubinator aide) and Paul Wachter (aRnie’s ‘blind trust’ manager)
I’m sure us little guy won’t mind coughing up more.
Eventually the students will pay actual costs!
My next “to leave the nest” will be learning a trade at our local college next year. It’s affordable and he’ll have a skill that he can always use.
A lot of people in society have been immune from the ramifications of their political views and their votes. If you are liberal and in favor of unionization of university employees and graduate students (yes, UC graduate students on several campuses are unionized), and you are against tougher immigration laws, and you support a business tax structure that encourages companies to move out of state, therefore decreasing the revenue base, then you have to be willing to pony up some other way to pay for things.
Diversity programs don’t come cheap suckers!
All those socialist/communist professors aren’t gonna take a pay cut. Pay up.
When will the greedy, exploitative heads of BigEducation be called before a grandstanding, useless Congressional committee a la “Big Oil”.
We need a show trial investigation of THEIR “windfall profits” and “price collaboration”.
Raising the fees applies only to White Americans who can pay the tuition. For “diversity” students, tuition is reduced, or they get undeserved scholarships.
Just another way of transferring money from those who worked hard to earn it to those who laugh and vote democrat.
“My next “to leave the nest” will be learning a trade at our local college next year. It’s affordable and he’ll have a skill that he can always use.”
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Wise decision.
Aside from hard skills, professional and otherwise, much of “higher education” is an utter waste of time and money. The more “elite” the school, the bigger the waste.
Besides, they aren’t real fond of males anyway these days.
“Weren’t California colleges free just a generation or two ago?”
Same thing happened in Texas. In-state tuition for a large state school used to be around 500 to 600 per year when I was looking at schools a few decades ago. Today, as we look for our kids, the same tuition is around 8 to 9,000 per year.
Spot on.
The cost of college is skyrocketing for the same reason the cost of health care is skyrocketing... government interference distorting the marketplace.
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