No matter how squeezed the University of California is, it makes no sense to single out students our economy will need — such as its future engineers — and levy a surcharge on them for their chosen major. That’s the latest scheme for raising revenue at UC. Undergraduates in engineering and business would be charged $900 more a year than other students, who already are facing a probable fee increase of more than $2,500 next fall. The rationale is that the faculty in these two fields earn significantly higher salaries, raising the cost of education, and that students from those majors will make enough money after graduation to pay off the bigger loans… UC is hurting, and we know that it cannot operate exactly as it did before. But California should not be ready to abandon the idea that a top-quality, subsidized undergraduate education is good for the state’s young people and the state’s future.

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by The Editors, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: October 13th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.