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November 20, 2009 12:56 PM
University of California Now One of America’s Most Expensive Public Schools
The New York Times had an update yesterday on the 32 percent tuition increase voted yesterday by the regents of the University of California. The piece, accompanied by photographs of student and staff protests, explains that:
The vote was 20-1, with only student Regent Jesse Bernal of UC Santa Barbara voting against the increase that will raise undergraduate tuition from $7,788 to $10,302 next fall, not counting living expenses.
This increase will make the University of California among the most expensive public universities in the United States of America.
What’s more, the struggle isn’t even over yet. Even with the colossal price increase, the system would still need another $913 million in state funding next year to evade further cuts.
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Anonymous on December 14, 2009 10:16 AM:
You posted a link from 2007. For example, the tuition at U. Michigan is now $12,000/semester (other colleges have also increased their tuition by about 12%). This means that UC students are not paying any more than their counterparts in other more responsible states. Perhaps now UC students will have to stop spending their cash on weed and work to pay tuition like the rest.
Milan Moravec on August 07, 2011 12:44 AM:
Most expensive most overrated public USA university: University of California Berkeley. University of California (UC) picks the pockets of Californians, foreign, out-of-state students clean. UC shouldn�t come to the Governor or public for support. (The author has 35 years� consulting experience, has taught at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work)
University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom. These are not isolated examples: recruits (uses California tax $) out of state $50,600 tuition students that displace qualified Californians from Cal. public university education; spends $7,000,000 + for consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; in procuring a $3,000,000 consulting firm he failed to receive proposals from other firms; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010 (M Krupnick Contra Costa Times); ranked # 70 USA best universities Forbes; tuition to Return on Investment drops below top 10; QS academic ranking falls below top 10; only 50 attend Birgeneau all employees meeting; visits down 20%; absence Cal. senior management control NCAA places basketball program on probation.
It�s all shameful. There is no justification for violations by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none.
Birgeneau�s irregularities continue. Governor Brown, UC Board of Regents Chair Lansing must do a better job of vigorously enforcing stringent oversight over Chancellor Birgeneau who uses the campus as his fiefdom.