tuition increase

This month, the UC Board of Regents is set to consider both a nonresident tuition increase and a cap on nonresident students, which includes out-of-state, international and undocumented students. Both of these measures will damage the UC’s status as a national and global leader in higher education.

During their first meeting of the year, the University of California Student Association passed a vote of no confidence in the UC Board of Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano, following the regents approval of a tuition increase policy in November.

Students returning to campus after the Thanksgiving break reinvigorated plans to demonstrate against the UC tuition increase Monday night at an assembly held by those who had been occupying Wheeler Hall up until the break.

The UC Board of Regents passed a tuition increase plan and the university’s 2015-16 budget at their meeting Thursday, despite great opposition from students.

On Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents is set to discuss a controversial tuition hike policy that proposes to link student tuition to the level of state funding the university receives. Here is a brief breakdown of what the policy is and where it came from.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker spoke to the campus Wednesday to confirm that even with increasing tuition rates, a college degree remains the “world’s best investment.”

California’s public universities could be required to begin discussing the possibility of fee increases with students six months before implementing future tuition increases if a bill passed by the state Senate Wednesday is made into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.

While the initiative is far from perfect, it provides students with immediate relief. Students have carried the burden of inadequate state funding for far too long. The initiative would provide funding to ensure that students do not experience another fee increase in the 2012-13 academic year.