No word on accepting incoming students off large waitlists this year.
http://universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-press-release-governors-revised-budget
University of California President Janet Napolitano announced today (May 14) that she and Gov. Jerry Brown have reached a historic agreement that provides UC with significant new revenue while capping resident tuition at its current level for the next two years.
Specifically, the agreement provides for:
A 4 percent base budget increase for each of the next four years.
A one-time infusion of $436 million over three years for UC’s pension obligation from funds set aside under Proposition 2.
Allocations in 2015-16 of $25 million for deferred maintenance and $25 million in funds from the state’s cap-and-trade program to support energy efficiency.
Regents to authorize the university to increase nonresident supplemental tuition up to 8 percent annually.
In addition, UC will either continue or expand efforts to:
Ensure that at least a third of its new students enter as transfers.
Make clear pathways to a three-year undergraduate degree.
Eliminate course bottlenecks.
Improve academic advising.
Explore other efficiencies.
A two-year freeze on tuition for state residents is the highlight of an agreement between Brown and Napolitano after months of negotiations and lobbying to avoid what UC said might have been hikes as high as 5% in each of the next five years. In-state students now pay about $12,200 a year for basic systemwide tuition and fees, not including room and board and some campus charges; that figure is triple what it was in 2002.
However, out-of-state students – whose rising numbers have irked legislators and California families – are expected to face 5% tuition increases to about $36,900 next year, and further hikes in later years, officials said.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article21000768.html
Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said in a statement that Brown’s plan “makes significant progress” on Assembly Democrats’ budget priorities. But she poured cold water on the governor’s deal with UC, saying an Assembly review of UC’s finances makes clear “further actions are necessary to ensure UC returns to a model that puts California students first and that more effectively uses the resources the state provides.”
The next spending plan also should include more money for the California State University system, “which has taken a more responsible approach to student fees,” the speaker said.
Preventing Tuition Increases
The May Revision maintains flat tuition at the state’s universities for California undergraduates and increases opportunities for students to transfer to the universities. It commits $38 million in ongoing funding for California State University, for a total of $158 million in new funding. As part of an agreement with the University of California, the state will provide temporary funding from Proposition 2 debt funds to assist in paying down its unfunded pension liability – as it imposes a pension cap consistent with the state’s 2012 reform law. For community colleges in 2015-16, the May Revision provides more than $600 million above the Governor’s January proposal to expand student success.