New UC President Janet Napolitano marked her first regents meeting Wednesday with a vow to make the university more affordable and calling for an undergraduate tuition freeze in 2014-15. And that was only the first bullet point of an ambitious policy agenda after six weeks on the job. Napolitano also said the university must find a way to move researchers’ inventions from the lab to the market more quickly; make it simpler for community college students to transfer to UC; expand enrollment; cut administrative costs; and become a better steward of the environment, using no more energy than it produces by 2025.

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

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