[H]alf of the university’s undergraduates in 1999 were middle class, as indicated by the report. By 2009, that figure was 41%… There are few good solutions available to university leaders during such tight financial times. Although UC President Mark Yudof presented the tuition increases to the regents as a plan, it’s actually more of a wake-up call to the realities faced by the university if more resources aren’t forthcoming from the state… Stiff increases in tuition, if they prove necessary, should be accompanied by a more graduated financial aid formula that spreads available money among more students.

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by The Editors, The Los Angeles Times.

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