Some students don’t even call the increases "tuition" anymore, but tax increases. They say state lawmakers are deceptive in claiming to have passed the budget without raising taxes. "Every time we raise taxes on students, the Legislature is off the hook – because we pay the tax, but they don’t make that clear," said Steve Dixon, a Sacramento State University graduate student in economics who serves on the CSU Board of Trustees. At UC, the gradual shift from state to student support suggests the public university is becoming privatized. "It is fair to begin wondering whether it is appropriate to continue calling the University of California a public university system," said Alfredo Mireles, a UCSF nursing student and member of UC’s Board of Regents. For the first time this fall, UC expects to take in more from tuition than state funding.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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