Question

As blog readers will know, the Regents recently voted to raise tuition for non-California students. 

Here are two straws in the wind:

From the NY Times: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the university will also cover all other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/mit-free-tuition.html.

From the Dallas Morning Herald: Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually will get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas System, the board of regents announced... The initiative is an expansion of the Promise Plus Program, a needs-based financial aid program approved by the board in 2022. The UT System expects that more than 7 million Texas families will meet the income requirements for the new program, officials said...

Full story at https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2024/11/20/a-game-changer-ut-system-announces-free-tuition-for-qualifying-texas-families/.

Question: With the competition cutting tuition - others are likely to follow MIT and the U of Texas - while UC raises tuition, what will be the consequences? Just wondering...