Over the past 10 years, the proportion of middle-income students attending the University of California has declined at nearly twice the rate of California middle-income households, while the share of lower- and upper-income UC students has risen. Some analysts suggest the trend stems from repeated hikes in UC tuition costs, coupled with limited access to many kinds of aid for middle-income students, who are increasingly incurring larger and larger loan debt. “We’ve got some significant problems here,” said William Tierney, USC Rossier School of Education professor, Wilbur-Kieffer professor of higher education and director of Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis. “Tuition is rising faster than people can keep up with it because family salaries are not rising as fast. … It’s not simply that there are more people out of work and can’t find jobs, but people’s salaries are staying flat.”

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by Samantha Schaefer, The Orange County Register.

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