I feel like a victim of a bait and switch. By this time next year we will be paying about $2,500 more than we planned when our son applied for admission a few months ago. Yet I find myself surprisingly calm. No one likes to pay more, but before I had a kid at the UC, I always saw the system as a bargain for students and their families. Despite all that has happened, it remains one of the best public universities in the country… Cutting tuition in good times and then raising it when times are tough is exactly the opposite of what the state should be doing. So while I don’t like it, I understand why our tuition bill is going up, and I can accept it, grudgingly, because the state is in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression. I just hope this is the end of it for a while.

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by Daniel Weintraub, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: October 4th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.