“Because these discussions are still ongoing, and because the Legislature is still at work putting together the state budget, I am announcing here today that UC will not implement a previously approved tuition increase of up to 5 percent for the summer quarter,” Napolitano said during a lecture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, according to prepared remarks shared by her office. The action drew praise from a key legislator. “I am pleased President Napolitano is beginning to walk back UC’s reliance on fee increases,” said Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, also an ex-officio UC regent, in a news release. “With the Assembly beginning our top-to-bottom review of UC’s budget today, I am sure we will be able to identify savings, as well as increased state funding, that will help ensure UC remains a world-class treasure.”

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

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