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Facing reductions in state funding, public universities from Michigan to Arizona to North Carolina have slashed budgets and hiked tuition. The most extreme case is California where University of California regents voted this week to increase tuition a whopping 32% to more than $10,000 annually - a three-fold increase in a decade. The move was greeted by student demonstrations. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...question of how smart you were. Now, it's do you have enough money to pay for school." Veronica Hernandez, who grew up in East LA and attends UC Riverside, said, "It took a long time for minorities to increase their numbers at the University of California. Now those numbers are going to go down." University officials say many students would be shielded from the effects of the tuition hike by additional financial...
...President Mark G. Yudof said the tuition increase is unfortunate: "When you have no money, you have no money." And the budget woes in Sacramento continue. California's budget analyst announced this week that the state is facing another huge deficit next year - $21 billion of red ink. (See pictures of college mascots...
Lange P. Luntao ’12, the Harvard Dems communications chair and a resident of the California district adjacent to Woods’s, said that Woods was an especially exciting speaker for him because his campaign garnered “lots of publicity about him in both local media and gay media...
Recipients of Howard’s scholarship attend California state schools. However, as he views public university tuition as too high for many students, Howard hopes to encourage more students to apply to private institutions where they can receive financial aid. Howard said at the panel, “Counselors shovel kids into flagship or second tier state schools. Wouldn’t they want to go to private schools so they could get more...