After narrowly escaping tuition hikes with the passage of Proposition 30 Tuesday, the UC Board of Regents will consider tuition increases for 61 professional degree programs at its meeting next week. Graduate students across the UC could see increases of up to 35 percent. If the Regents approve the tuition Read More…
The middle class is dwindling. Since the economic downturn, politicians have rallied behind the call to help the poor and middle classes. Political speeches are now about protecting the middle class. But, as experience has proven recently, political rhetoric about the middle class is nothing more than just that — Read More…
The UC Board of Regents voted to increase supplemental tuition for most of the UC’s professional degree programs, reigniting an ongoing debate about the adverse effect of tuition increases on the enrollment of students from underrepresented ethnic groups. Read More…
What do Chrysler, General Motors, International Paper, Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble all have in common? Besides being major, out-of-state corporations, they have banded together to create a deceptive campaign against California’s middle class families by attempting to stop the passage of Assembly Bill 1500. The bill, which is a component Read More…
So much about the University of California has changed since Mario Savio’s infamous speech Dec. 2, 1964. Since then, the state and the UC Board of Regents have moved far away from the Master Plan. In 2011, for the first time in the university’s history, undergraduate students paid more than Read More…
As part of a nationwide Day of Action, protesters began demonstrations at UC Berkeley early Thursday morning that culminated in a rally on Sproul Plaza at noon before some protesters marched to Oakland. The demonstrations began around 8 a.m., when about 20 protesters began encircling California Hall and wrapping caution Read More…
A UC Berkeley professor is working with former presidential candidate Ralph Nader to create an initiative for the November state ballot that would limit tuition increases in California’s public colleges. The idea to get an initiative on the ballot — whose specifics would be determined by UC Berkeley faculty and Read More…
Students of California, arise! You have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial hour during a recession, has a chokehold on California’s public universities. With its tax-coddled plutocracy and a nod to further corporatization, the state government Read More…
The State of the Union address President Barack Obama delivered Tuesday focused mainly on closing the wealth gap and creating jobs as ways to improve the nation’s economy. However, in his third State of the Union, Obama presented a renewed focus on education as necessary for pulling the country out Read More…
