Thread: California College Tuition Rates Rising 32%

Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent


UCLA students protested a budget vote that raised tuition by 32 percent, at the UCLA Westwood campus in Westwood, Calif., on Thursday.

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By TAMAR LEWIN and REBECCA CATHCART
Published: November 19, 2009

As the University of California’s Board of Regents met Thursday at U.C.L.A. and approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent next fall, hundreds of students from campuses across the state demonstrated outside, beating drums and chanting slogans against the increase.

Isaac Miller and Irene Van, who traveled to U.C.L.A. late Wednesday night in a bus caravan from Berkeley, said they worried about how higher fees would affect illegal immigrant students, who are not eligible for financial aid, and minority students, already dwindling in number since Proposition 209 prohibited affirmative action.

“Diversity is central to this,â€

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"Isaac Miller and Irene Van, who traveled to U.C.L.A. late Wednesday night in a bus caravan from Berkeley, said they worried about how higher fees would affect illegal immigrant students, who are not eligible for financial aid, and minority students, already dwindling in number since Proposition 209 prohibited affirmative action.

“Diversity is central to this,â€

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“Diversity is central to this

Yea, diversity caused this problem. The illegals population has devastated CA. so the cost of everything has increased exponentially and all they are worried about is the the effect of the tuiton increase on illegals ( the population mostly responcible for the bankruptcy of the state ?). More Diversity/ Global nonsense.

[quote]Isaac Miller and Irene Van, who traveled to U.C.L.A. late Wednesday night in a bus caravan from Berkeley, said they worried about how higher fees would affect illegal immigrant students, who are not eligible for financial aid, and minority students, already dwindling in number since Proposition 209 prohibited affirmative action.

“Diversity is central to this,â€

Hey clowns, the people of California have already spoken, our taxes are too high already!! Now if we weren't spending $20 billion a year to support illegal aliens including in-state tuition for illegals your tuition would stay the same. Your liberal politiicans have already made their choice, they support illegal aliens more than you, how you like them apples.