Price tags at the state’s universities have been skyrocketing well beyond inflation. Between 2003 and 2008, fees at UC and Cal State campuses went up by about 70 percent while personal income grew by about 30 percent and inflation by about 20 percent, according to the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Both of California’s public university systems are considering fee hikes even though they received a boost in state funding of more than 11 percent in the budget Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed last month. Yudof credited "better treatment by the Legislature and our $500 million in efficiencies" for keeping the proposed fee hike from being higher than 8 percent. This year’s increase in state funding doesn’t make up for two decades of shrinking state funds, he said. When adjusted for inflation, UC now receives half the state funding it did 20 years ago on a per-student basis.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

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