California public universities must increase student fees dramatically to maintain their academic quality if the state’s proposed budget cuts for 2008-09 are approved, according to recent reports. In order to make up for the $417.4 million gap between the university’s and state’s proposed budgets for 2008-09, resident undergraduate student fees must jump to $9,636, up from $6,636 in 2007-08, excluding individual campus fees, a UC Academic Council report projects. The jump represents about a 45 percent fee increase.

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by Angelica Dongallo, The Daily Californian.

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