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Friday, September 11, 2009

UC president recommends huge tuition increases


UC president recommends huge tuition increases:

UC President Mark Yudof is recommending a 15 percent increase in in-state undergraduate fees that would take effect next spring, and another 15 percent increase on top of that beginning in fall 2010.
The governing Board of Regents will hear details of the proposal - which also includes graduate-level fee increases of 15 percent - at its meeting Wednesday, but won't vote until November.
If approved, the undergraduate fee increases would be the eighth and ninth in seven years, and would send the price of a year at UC above the $10,000 mark for the first time next fall. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/09/11/MNAB19L7Q9.DTL#ixzz0QoU4s4RP