Drake opened the meeting by acknowledging the impacts of COVID-19 on the university and said he was “inspired by the flexibility and resilience of our student body.” He praised students and faculty for adapting to a remote learning environment, which he said is not a preferred method of delivering instruction but is “serving us well.” Questions about tuition hikes came as the UC system faces a $258.4 million decrease in funding from the state government, according to the enacted California state budget of 2020-21. “I’m sure that we won’t have an increase in tuition of any kind coming up this year,” Drake said during the teleconference. “We wouldn’t think about anything like that during the time we are still remote.”

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by Amudha Sairam and Kaleo Mark, The Daily Californian.

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