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UC tuition payment option
Oh jeez.
In addition to the now paltry 9.3% fee hike approved back in May, the University of California is discussing raising student fees an additional 32%, which would make "annual undergraduate tuition over the $10,000 level for the first time ever." Gulp.
The brainiacs at the Daily Clog have the numbers that will make you and your degree in comparative literature wince. Behold:
- 7.5 percent increase for spring 2010
- UC tuition up to $10,302
- Undergrads pay $2,500 more
- Most grad students also paying 32 percent more
- Undergrads (as graduates do now)—if in engineering or business—pay up to $1000 more than other students
- Enrollment reduced by 2,300 for the second year in a row
"It's really coming out of left field," president of the UC Students Association and a UC Santa Cruz undergraduate Victor Sanchez told Contra Costa Times. "What you're going to see is an astronomical drop in the number of students able to attend."
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The worst of it is that none of these hikes really are "tuition" (the press can't seem to get this right.) California does not legally charge "tuition" (defined as paying for the cost of the education one gets at said university) to California residents. They can't. It's in the CA Constitution.
However, starting in the 60s, when Reagan wanted to kick the hippies out, they started mandating "fees." NONE of this money can go to paying for teachers, labs, etc. IT's all admin bullshit. So when you hear about the big pay for the adminstration and so on, well you know who is literally borrowing to pay for it -students.
The only people who pay the full cost of their education are non-residents who move to CA and enroll. but they can get residency once they've been here a while.
so why isn't that the pushback? "none of it goes to teaching"
Well there go my, already seemingly ridiculous, dreams of moving from London to Berkeley to do a post-grad.
SFSU here I come!
Their tuition went up too.
The reason this is happening is because of the legislature's inability to pass budgetary legislation to pay for things. It isn't that there is a lack of revenue. There are plenty of things the state of California could do to cover the costs of education. The root problem is Prop 13 - The Jarvis initiative. That imposed the 2/3's rule for all tax increases and budgetary measures, and capping property taxes at 1% of the land value, and freezing land value to its late 1970's value. This is the real problem. If we remove the 2/3's rule, the majority Democratic legislature wouldn't be hogtied to come up with solutions. If we went further and at least partially removed the 1% cap on property taxes, for instance, only letting homeowners benefit from that and not businesses, then that would be a whole lot of revenue for the state to pay for services like the UC system.
They used to claim the hikes were "temporary" but now they've stopped pretending that the fees will ever be reduced. It's sad.
so depressing. tax the fucking rich already!%@!