For five years, UC has said its annual tuition for California undergraduates was $12,192, a figure widely reported by news outlets, including The Chronicle, and used by state lawmakers, state auditors and UC officials themselves. But in announcing their tuition proposal Wednesday, UC officials insisted that current tuition was $11,220. They said that if the regents approve the raise later this month, tuition would grow to $11,502 for the 2017-18 school year, an increase of 2.5 percent… It turns out that UC’s often-cited tuition figure of $12,192 has always included a “student services” fee. Now, however, UC is separating out that fee from the tuition figure. That’s because UC is proposing to increase that student services fee by a higher percentage (5 percent) than the base tuition increase (2.5 percent).

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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