After dodging the deep budget cuts to higher education prevented by passage of the Proposition 30 tax measure, relieved administrators are already looking to next year’s budgets – and possible price hikes at the University of California and California State University. Votes on fee increases are expected next week by each governing board… The UC regents will vote next week in San Francisco on whether to raise fees for seven professional degree programs on top of basic tuition, including a 35 percent increase for nursing students. Four other programs, including “translational medicine” at Berkeley and San Francisco, could see extra fees for the first time. The regents will also vote on a 2013-14 budget that would raise overall tuition by an unspecified amount unless the state augments UC’s budget by $126.5 million… CSU trustees will vote in Long Beach on whether to raise fees on three groups of students: those who linger at school after being eligible to graduate, who take extra classes, or who take the same class multiple times. CSU said it has had to turn away many students and hopes to free up space by encouraging thousands to move steadily through school.

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