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Higher UC, CSU tuition sure to follow deep cuts
- 06-29-2011
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Nanette Asimov/San Francisco Chronicle
With the certainty of deep cuts to the University of California and California State University in the new state budget - each by $650 million - comes another certainty: higher tuition to make up the difference. "Cuts of this magnitude inevitably will drive up tuition for public university students and their families," UC spokesman Steve Montiel said Tuesday, providing a grim forecast just weeks before an 8 percent tuition hike kicks in that will bring tuition at UC's nine undergraduate campuses to $11,124 - or $12,150 when mandatory campus fees are included. UC has predicted a substantial tuition increase on top of that if forced to absorb such a cut in the 2011-12 school year. Gov. Jerry Brown is poised to sign the budget by the end of the week. At CSU, the trustees are tossing around the possibility of raising tuition 15 percent for next spring, which they could vote on as early as July 12. CSU students already face a 15 percent tuition hike this fall, bringing the price to nearly $6,000 with mandatory campus fees. (more...)
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