University of California looks at changing how it raises tuition — and who’d get the higher bills

In its latest effort to find a fair way to raise tuition — and avoid student protests every time it happens — the University of California wants yearly price hikes, but only for incoming freshmen and transfer students. The UC regents don’t yet have a plan to do that. But at the regents’ midsummer meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, university officials will float a trial balloon to see what the governing board thinks. Under that pricing system, tuition would remain flat as long as students are enrolled, perhaps up to six years. It’s called cohort-based tuition because prices would rise only for each group of new students.

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by Nanette asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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