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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.
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