'Dark day' for UC Berkeley students if tax measure fails, chancellor says
UC Berkeley faces a cut of $50 million to its $2.2 billion budget if Gov. Jerry Brown’s ballot measure to increase taxes fails in November. That scenario would be a “very dark day” for students, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said at a back-to-school news conference Thursday. Birgeneau said students coming from middle- and upper-income families would be hurt the most. The failure of the tax measure would result in a tuition hike of 20 percent, UC Regents said earlier this summer. That would bump costs for undergraduate students to $14,670 a year.
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by Doug Oakley, The San Jose Mercury News.