UC and Cal State will consider the first tuition hikes in six years
Squeezed to do far more with much less, the University of California and California State University are considering raising tuition for the first time in six years as they grapple with escalating demands to enroll more students, graduate them faster and hire more faculty — all with a smaller share of state dollars than in years past… What needs to be figured out, said the PPIC’s Johnson, is how to pay for all of the California students who have worked hard through high school to qualify for admission to UC and CSU. “These are students who have done everything right, and I find it astounding that we haven’t found a way to better accommodate them,” he said.
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by Teresa Watanabe and Rosanna Xia, The Los Angeles Times.