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November 19, 2009 2:44 PM
Massive Tuition Increase for University of California
Yesterday the regents of the University of California approved a 32 percent tuition increase. From the Chronicle of Higher Education :
The tuition proposal, which is expected to receive final approval on Thursday by the system’s full Board of Regents, will help close a large budget gap, in part by raising undergraduate tuition at the system’s campuses by more than $2,500 by next fall. The committee’s approval came on the same day that California’s legislative analyst predicted the state would face a new $21-billion budget deficit, making it likely that struggling state colleges and universities would soon suffer additional cuts.
The California higher education system, which used to be virtually free, has struggled in recent years to weigh education quality with cost, a balance that became more difficult to maintain with the state of California’s recent economic trouble.
Hundreds of students and staff at Berkeley and UCLA began a 3-day protest against the tuition increase.
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Prof. U on November 20, 2009 5:56 AM:
One of the problems in higher education is that too many states use public universities as ATMs. When budgets are falling short too many states take money away from schools and expect it to be made up by tuition increases. This is unsustainable in the long run. For all the articles that run in this section on the problems in higher education this is one of the most important issues and yet does not receive a appropriate amount of coverage. It happens with private schools as well but that is less of an issue - many private institutions do receive some funding from state governments and get hit hard by state cuts.