UC fee hikes may total 32 percent, regents say
University of California leaders hinted Wednesday that they would approve student fee increases totaling 32 percent to battle a budget crisis that is expected to last through 2011. The two-part increase, scheduled to come to a vote in November, was supported by several members of the Board of Regents, including Regent Eddie Island, who usually opposes fee increases. "We are indeed at a point of crisis," Island said during the meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus. "I’ve gone to the side of necessity." The increases would include both a midyear fee hike in January and a larger one later in the year. By next August, undergraduates for the first time would pay more than $10,000 per year in systemwide fees.
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by Matt Krupnick, The Oakland Tribune.