Undergraduate tuition at the University of California will rise 18.3 percent this fall, hitting $12,192 under a plan approved by university officials Thursday to help offset reduced state funding.
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“It’s a devastating decision for every student,” said Patrick Manh Le, 20, a UC Irvine senior and executive vice president of the university’s student government. “When you look at how our fees have increased exponentially, it’s just unacceptable for a public university. It’s becoming almost as expensive as a private university.”
UC tuition does not include about $1,000 in campus-based fees, or room and board.
Under the plan, the price tag to enroll at a UC school will be nearly double what it was just six years ago. Undergraduate tuition was $6,141 annually in 2005-06.
The UC tuition increase is made up of two components:
UC families already have been bracing for a planned 8 percent tuition hike that was approved last fall; this hike will raise tuition by $822 beginning this fall, to $11,124 annually.
On Thursday, the UC Board of Regents approved a 9.6 percent hike that will raise tuition by $1,068 more, to $12,192 total.
Last month, state funding for UC schools was slashed by $650 million.
UC officials said they would have been able to absorb a $500 million cut, as proposed by the governor earlier this year. But after $150 million was added to that amount in last month's state budget agreement, UC announced it would need the 9.6 percent hike to stay solvent.
An additional $100 million cut is possible by early next year if state revenues come in lower than projected, UC said….
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I hear administration is closing-off the MRC to students. Is this true?
Yes i too heard that long back.
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Isn't that like cheating our community? I wonder who makes these decisions?
Regarding cutting off the Media Resource Center (MRC), it is a done deal. It just sits empty and collecting dust while students march to the dean's office complaining about the lack of support for their computer classes. Did I say computer classes? Oops! Those are gone too. Just finished cutting the ribbon on the new Business and Technology Building and before the guests can make it to their cars, half the rooms have been confiscated and the centerpiece of the building, the MRC, is shut down. No discussion, no open planning and decision making, things just "happen" as a misinformed administrator spends taxpayer's money and destroys programs.
Yup, before the door even shut behind Dave Shinnick’s exit, they dismantled the whole network lab. So much for technology classes, huh? Now I guess I’ll have to go to Orange Coast or Golden West to finish my IT program.
Since IVC’s crown jewel BSTIC building is now sans technology, ya think they ought to pull the T down from the sign so it reads, BSIC? or “Be Sick” Yes?
The administrator, Craig "Craizy" Justice, so hell bent on shutting down IVC technology programs and facilities (while canning needed staff and creating more administrators) is probably more "malevolent" than "misinformed." True he has spent his entire adult career in academia and knows nothing of the real world where most of IVC's students are struggling to prepare for, maintain, or move up in a job, and cares even less. But combine that with an authoritarian, vindictive, control-freak personality, and a laissez-faire figurehead look-the-other-way hen pecked president, you've got a recipe for just the kind of disaster occurring at IVC, a loose-cannon bull-in-the-china-shop VP wrecking what took 30 years to build. Wake up, faculty sleepy heads!
Wake up? There's little chance of that. I've given up on this crew.
bVt, if dissenters, their union pals & senate went after “this crew” with the save veracity they devoted to Williams, Fuentes and the Ghu-ster, wouldn’t you think some positive change could finally come about? It appears now IVC is much worse off with the new Glenn-Craig tag team. Yes, the employee survey is atrocious and since, conditions have only gotten much worse. You may chuckle inside at other programs/departments being dismantled, but you can be sure it ain’t stop’n there; humanities could be next.
I don't disagree that the Roquemore/Justice regime is really bad. I've tried to make that point in many ways for years. When I referred to "this crew," I wasn't referring to them, however. I was referring to the existing campus community, and especially faculty. They've always been lazy, passive, (I'll leave it at that), and willing to let others do what needs to be done. But I've finally tired of being on the front lines, either as an actor or as a reporter. People, it seems, get the government that they deserve.
Of course, I could have said (and probably did say) the same thing a year ago, two years ago, ten years ago, etc.
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