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Dec 24th, 2014
• A University of California that is becoming almost unaffordable for the middle class. UC should be as great for the students as is it for highly paid...
Dec 11th, 2014
The fate of the proposed tuition increase at University of California campuses now rests in the hands of the governor and state lawmakers, who are aligned in opposition to it but...
Dec 7th, 2014
First of all, Californians think that raising university tuition again is a really bad idea. A non-starter. Second, although the University of California is crying for more state...
Dec 2nd, 2014
State Senate leader Kevin de León proposed legislation Tuesday to help the University of California avoid tuition hikes by phasing out a middle-class scholarship program...
Dec 1st, 2014
Amid the feel-good proceedings of the Legislature's swearing-in ceremony, Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins sent a clear signal Monday of a brewing policy showdown: the proposed...
Nov 24th, 2014
Gov. Jerry Brown may have met his match in Janet Napolitano. And the University of California president definitely is confronting a skilled adversary in the...
Nov 23rd, 2014
For all that he's a regent of the University of California, Gov. Jerry Brown is not an expert on academia or modern trends in higher education. What he brings to the deliberations...
Nov 20th, 2014
The votes were cast and the protesters' chanting died down. Now months of political wrangling and budget negotiations are ahead before UC students know for sure how much next...
Nov 19th, 2014
After years of cuts to higher education, recent state budgets have included a substantial reinvestment in public universities. But that increased funding has done little to cure...
