The Regents of the University of California voted on Wednesday to increase tuition 32%. In response many students have begun protesting. Students are currently occupying building in UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz, and an occupation at UC Davis was broken up last night after 52 protestors were arrested.
Tuition was increased at the beginning of the school year and will be increased more than $500 next term, and over $1000 at the beginning of next year. This does not include costs for fees, books, and housing. For a comparison, when the Chancellor of UC Davis (Linda Katehi) was a student in the University of California, she paid $234 per quarter. These tuition increases are being coupled with furloughts for staff & faculty, while the Chancellor is being paid some $500,000 a year, plus allowances and benefits.
I will try and keep this diary updated, apologize if this resembles a series of twitter updates rather than a well thought out diary.
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