If the $500 million cut already made to the university earlier this spring were to double to $1 billion under an all-cuts budget, Yudof said the 10 campus system would be put on a path that could lead to a mid-year tuition increase next January, employee layoffs, program closures throughout the university and – ultimately – a doubling of tuition to $20,000 a year… The senate budget committee also heard testimony from several Silicon Valley business leaders who all credited the state’s public universities for producing the human capital that tech start-ups rely on for success, a rare pairing of public and private interests before the committee.

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by Javier Panzar, The Daily Californian.

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