UC students may face a 6 percent fee hike in July if state funding is not increased.
The UC Board of Regents Committee on Finance will discuss possible courses of action hinging on Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revise to the state budget at the UC Board of Regents May 16 meeting in Sacramento.
The board will vote to increase student fees at its meetings July 17 to 19 if the May revise does not increase university funding by $125 million, according to the discussion item.
Details regarding the possible fee increase were presented in the discussion item — authored by the UC Office of the President — issued to the committee. A multi-year funding framework that would include “moderate, predictable tuition and fee increases,” is also proposed in the discussion item.
Additional hikes will likely result if Brown’s tax initiative on the November election ballot is not approved by voters.
The multi-year plan is contingent on the tax initiative being passed and would be rendered “inoperable” if the initiative does not pass. The UC will face an additional $200 million budget cut in the middle of the 2012-2013 fiscal year if the initiative does not pass, according to the discussion item.
Read the text of the discussion item below:
Christopher Yee is an assistant news editor.
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The students are going to pay for Yudof and the state legislatures actions. Yudof spends about a billion a year outside of the schools. That sounds like a very wasteful and inefficient use of UC funds. Then the legislature doesn’t like education. They are almost happy to cut spending on public education in favor of their other projects. And students shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking the tax initiative will guarantee help. A legislature that prefers to spend tax revenue on other projects will only be too happy to take additional revenue generated from the tax initiative and spend it on anything but education. Remember they refuse to promise that any of the tax money will go to the UC.
Might I say, “f**k that.” This is getting ridiculous. I know the state is broke, but cutting education ISN’T WORKING. And that said, raising tuition isn’t going to help either. What you’ll get is either more people going into loan debt to pay for their education or people who just won’t get their education. Either way, we’re screwed. California needs to get its sh*t together.
UCOP spent 6.6 billion over a 5 year period and gave these expenditures the two word description “miscellaneous services”.
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2010-105.pdf
When the CA State Auditor said that was inadequate and inappropriate bookkeeping for such princely sums,
Yudof became irritated and acted as though he couldn’t understand why anyone would think it was a problem.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/28/BAEV1KGAAJ.DTL
$1.3 billion/year is about 2X the largest cuts in state funding in any given year.
$1.3 billion/year is about 4.5% of the UC system-wide annual budget.
$1.3 billion/year is, in Yudof’s view, not enough for him to bother telling you how his office spends that money.