A committee of the University of California Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan that could raise tuition by as much as 5 percent in each of the next five years, the
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A committee of the University of California Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a plan that could raise tuition by as much as 5 percent in each of the next five years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The meeting, at the university’s San Francisco campus, saw fireworks inside and out. Hundreds of student protesters gathered beforehand, attempted to keep the regents from entering, and jostled with campus police officers when they intervened. Karl Pister, an 89-year-old former chancellor of the system’s Santa Cruz campus, said he was knocked down and cut his hand.
Inside the meeting, the system president, Janet Napolitano, traded jabs with the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, over the necessity of the increases. Ms. Napolitano argued that the measure was needed amid what she called inadequate state funding. Mr. Brown said the system should instead add more online classes and merge similar programs across system campuses, among other things.
The committee voted, 7 to 2, to approve the plan, with Governor Brown and the student representative, Sadia Saifuddin, voting in opposition. The measure will go before the full board on Thursday.
