Going Up

From the San Francisco Chronicle: The University of California’s Board of Regents is picking up where it left off when the pandemic hit, and will vote July 22 on whether to raise undergraduate tuition for the first time since 2017, beginning a year from now. But the proposal is different from earlier tuition increases - which have often sparked massive student protests - because it would raise the price annually only on first-year students and new transfer students, allowing them to keep that tuition level for up to six years. University officials hope that graduated approach will be more palatable for students than the double-digit hikes that were common a decade ago at the height of the recession.

Annual tuition for an undergraduate California resident is $11,442. Mandatory fees raise the yearly price to $12,570 — and then to $14,077 when fees from the nine undergraduate campuses are included.

Under the proposal, students entering UC in fall 2022 would pay an additional $534 in tuition and student fees for the duration of their enrollment. The increase equals average inflation over three years, plus 2%. The amount charged above inflation would decrease for each new group of students until fall 2026, when the increase would be held at the rate of inflation alone...

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Editor's Note: $534/$11,442 = 4.5%

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Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/University-of-California-will-consider-raising-16310228.php.

For the complete agenda of the July 20-22 Regents meeting, see:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/07/regents-agenda-for-july-20-22-2021.html.