Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown said UC tuition could double. Thursday, Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, mulled closing a UC campus to preserve the flagship institutions. And through it all, UC administrators have remained mum on these kinds of radical proposals, only saying that "all options are on the table." These political figures – who, because of the university’s constitutional autonomy, do not have the direct authority to close a UC campus or raise systemwide tuition levels – have suggested the most controversial changes to university operations in the face of the potential $1 billion funding reduction to the university. Testimony at a Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review meeting Thursday heard drastic ideas, including the closing of a campus and the reorganization of the UC’s research enterprise, raised as cost-saving measures in the event that $14 billion in revenue from Brown’s proposed tax extensions are not realized.

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo, The Daily Californian.

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