Stop the Fee Increase

At the November 17-19 Regents' meeting at UCLA, the Regents will vote on a proposal to increase student fees by 32% over the next year.  This increase would be in addition to a 9.3% increase that took effect with the beginning of the 2009/2010 academic year.  Student fees have more than doubled in the last decade, and with this proposed increase the cost to attend UC will have tripled since 2000/2001.  

Fee increases are part of a larger trend toward a smaller, more privatized university.  This trend abandons the California Master Plan for Higher Education and its pillars of access, affordability and quality, in favor of a corporate business model that promotes profit sectors within the university over the instructional mission.

UC-AFT opposes these fee increases and we are working to convince the Regents to vote them down.  Please join this effort.

 

 

Why We Must Stop the Fee Increases

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Yudof’s Proposed Student Fee Increases:  the Destruction of Public Education in California

Alternatives to the Fee Increases

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Student Fee increases at UC Unnecessary

By Mike Rotkin, UC-AFT VP for Organizing 

What You Can Do Now to Stop Fee Increases

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They Pledged Your Tuition

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:45
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UCSC Professor and President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, Bob Meister, recently wrote an article linking student fee increases with UC's bond rating, sale of bonds, and payment of bond debt.  Meister and a coalition of students and workers have now called on the UC Regents Audit Committee to investigate the use of tuition to secure choice interest rates, and to pay bond debt.  This is a three part series consisting of the original article, a response to questions from faculty and students, and a response to UC's reaction to the original piece.

L.A. Times Opinion Piece CSU Trustee

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 09:58
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For nearly six years, I have served on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system -- the last two as its chairman. This experience has been more than just professional; it has been a deeply personal one. With my term ending soon, I need to share my concern -- and personal pain -- that California is on the verge of destroying the very system that once made this state great.

Sample Letter to Editor and Talking Points--Fee Increase

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Dear Editor, 

The UC Regents are preparing to vote on an educational fee increase that would would raise tuition at the University of California by 32% over the coming year.  This increase would be in addition to a 9.3% increase that took effect with the beginning of the 2009/10 academic year. Student fees at UC have been increasing far in excess of the rate of inflation.  In 2000/2001 a UC student paid about $3400 dollars in tuition.  The proposed fee increase to be voted on by the Regents on November 17-19 would set tuition at $10,300 per year.   

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