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During her presidential remarks at the November meeting of the UC Board of Regents, UC President Janet Napolitano announced her proposal to freeze tuition for the 2014-15 academic year. The proposal follows years of volatile and exponential fee increases. Since 2008-09, the UC system has raised its residential undergraduate tuition
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College students around the world should stand in solidarity with South African students, whose recent mass protests and riots, stemming from proposed fee increases of more than 10 percent, persuaded the government to freeze tuition for the next academic year. In the wake of declining state funding, rising costs of
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On Jan. 7, Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would freeze tuition hikes for the next seven years in recognition of Prop. 30, a tax increase that protected the UC system from a $250 million midyear budget cut.
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There’s a difference between theory and reality. In theory, UC Irvine alumnus Chris Campbell’s plan to freeze undergraduate public college tuition at first-year rates is good. But in reality, the plan won’t work, and could very well do more harm than good. Freezing tuition does not address the real problem: the state government.
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Sometimes progress and stagnation are one in the same. With a tuition freeze in California’s 2012-13 budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed last Wednesday, students in the UC and CSU systems will not face increasing education costs in the coming school year.
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Governor Brown finalized the state budget when he signed it Wednesday night. However, as of press time, it remains unclear whether he approved the bill that would allocate the funds to the UC and CSU.
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