Assembly speaker calls on UC to reverse planned tuition increase after scathing audit
A day after the state auditor blasted the University of California for raising tuition while its administration sat on a secret $175 million reserve, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon became the second member of UC’s governing Board of Regents to call for a reversal of the fee hike. In an interview, Rendon, who as speaker serves as an ex officio regent, said he would seek to undo a nearly 3 percent increase in UC tuition and fees approved for next fall, the university’s first in six years.
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by Alexei Koseff, The Sacramento Bee.