UC raises fees by 9 percent, names new chancellors

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<p><a href=“05-07”>Quote</a> 16:30 PDT San Francisco, CA (AP) --</p>

<p>The University of California Board of Regents voted Thursday to raise student fees by 9.3 percent, the latest move to offset state budget cuts to the 10-campus system.</p>

<p>The regents also approved the appointments of two new chancellors — Linda Katehi at UC Davis and Susan Desmond-Hellmann at UC San Francisco. They will be the first women to lead those campuses when they start their new jobs in August.</p>

<p>The fee increase, approved by a 17-4 vote, is one of several measures aimed at cutting the university’s $450 million budget shortfall. In recent months, UC has frozen administrator salaries, imposed hiring freezes, reduced faculty recruitment and cut freshman enrollment.</p>

<p>The fee hikes are expected to generate about $152 million, with about one-third set aside for financial aid.</p>

<p>Fees will increase by $662 for California resident undergraduates, who should expect to pay about $8,700 in fees for the coming academic year. Fees will rise $750 for in-state graduate academic students and $654 for most in-state professional students.</p>

<p>Tuition for nonresident undergraduates will increase 10 percent to about $22,000.</p>

<p>UC officials said the fee hikes will be largely offset by expanded financial aid programs and bigger tax credits included in the $787 billion federal stimulus package.** Under the university’s new Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, students from families earning less than $60,000 will not have to pay any fees.**</p>

<p>“I want to reassure our students that this year we will have an extraordinary amount of additional financial resources available to cover the higher fees,” UC President Mark Yudof said in a statement.</p>

<p>But some students said the increase in fees, which have more than doubled over the past seven years, will make low-income students overly dependent on financial aid and create financial hardship for middle-income students.</p>

<p>“It makes lower-income families more vulnerable to state budget attacks on financial aid,” said Lucero Chavez, president of the University of California Student Association. “This model is most harmful to middle-income students. It translates into more loan debt and a lot more work hours.”</p>

<p>The new chancellors were appointed Thursday after committees conducted a national search for each position and Yudof recommended them to the regents.</p>

<p>Desmond-Hellmann, 51, will replace J. Michael Bishop, who is stepping down after more than 10 years as chancellor at UCSF, one of the country’s leading medical research centers.</p>

<p>A physician in internal medicine and medical oncology, Desmond-Hellmann has served as a scientist and executive at South San Francisco-based biotech firm Genentech for the past 14 years. She previously worked as an intern at UCSF after earning her medical degree at the University of Nevada, Reno.</p>

<p>Katehi, 55, who serves as provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, would replace Larry Vanderhoef, who is stepping down after 15 years as UC Davis’ chancellor. A professor of electrical and computer engineering, Katehi previously served as dean of engineering at Purdue University in Indiana.

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<p>No!!!
Gah. more debt for me.</p>

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<p>Yeah… talk about a really hard hit for the middle class. I’m already getting NO financial aid, nor am I really asking for it, but to raise my tuition, so that I can pay for someone else’s financial aid, and I’m not getting anything out of it? Man. That’s rough.</p>

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<p>Being middle class…sucks.</p>

<p>Especially when it comes to paying for college.
Just becaues my family can pay for our house, doesn’t mean they can pay for that as well as my future education.</p>

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<p>It’s even harder when you are paying for two kids at the same time.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know several twins (who are going to college at the same time)…it’s horrible.</p>

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<p>You think that is bad, we have 1 at state school, 1 at UC and another entering a UC in the Fall. Middle class, and we saved in a college account but took a beating when the stock market collapsed. 3rd child spent many hours applying for scholarships, 4.4 gpa, #1 or 2 in class, gold award winner etc., and she got nothing! Will have to take on large debt for #3 kid to go to college. We will be paying approx. $75,000 per year for college (and kids are in publics) for the next 3 years at least! Being middle class is awful. Financial Aid used to take into consideration 3 children in college, no more for the middle class I guess. Kids do work but they don’t make much $$.</p>

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<p>^^^ I sympathize. But I heard your EFC gets divided by 2 in case of 2 kids at college at same time and EFC/3 if 3 kids in college. So, why does that not work for your family?</p>

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<p>Yep we have one more (hs junior) to follow. It’s going to be rough :(</p>

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<p>That’s what I thought as well. Our EFC was 14,000 but I guess that is not low enough for any fine aide. My sister in-law had 3 kids in (private) college and makes more than we do and they qualified for aide!</p>

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<p>any fees including room + board?</p>

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<p>Those cuts are nothing. When all the budget related votes fail next week they will really have to do some serious cutting.</p>

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<p>doesn’t the UC fee go up by about 9% every year? that’s what I’ve been hearing since high school, and my professor said so too.</p>

<p>I’m not getting any aid either. for the past year my mom has been working so hard just to pay for my college and it’s so painful everytime I receive a receipt by email saying that my balance for the month has been cleared, because it means that my mom has just paid another big amount of money for my education (I have a monthly payment plan for housing because we can’t afford to pay the whole amount at once).</p>

<p>and all i’ve received is a $300-something freshman scholarship from the UC, which doesn’t even cover my textbook expense!!</p>

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<p>Au contraire! It couldn’t get any better for the purposes of financial aid! The efc is cut in half for twins. If the kids were spaced four years apart, it would be a full efc.</p>

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<p>Its kinda like Obama’s platform (which the vast majority of college kids voted for): spread the wealth around! :)</p>

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<p>^<br>
Except the tiered EFC and “spreading the wealth” for financial aid has been around long before Obama. Nice try.</p>

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<p>Actually, you need to think a little deeper.</p>

<p>Yes, as a Blue State, California has been spreading the wealth around for a long time.</p>

<p>But, California also voted for the new Prez, 2:1, which reinforced the concept of spreading around the wealth and emboldened the tax raisers in the Legislature. Thus, the immediate tax increase in California, and next week’s special election.</p>

<p>College kids nationwide (and in California) voted for Obama about 9:1. Thus, they have no basis for complaints when their wealth is spread around, IMO.</p>

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<p>California’s burgeoning wealth redistribution mentality existed long before Obama came in to office, and unfortunately will continue regardless of the political ideology of the sitting President – whether conservative or liberal. The year over year fee hikes in higher education are not a result of Obama’s policies, but rather the ineptitude of the California Legislature (Dems & Repubs) to control spending for… oh the past 10 to 15 years or so. </p>

<p>Insinuating that students “…have no basis for complaints when their wealth is spread around” because they voted for Obama, is ludicrous.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, presidents come in mixed packages, dont they? For example, just because I vote for Obama because I’m tired of conservatism and want out of the Iraq war, doesnt necessarily mean that I’m also a supporter of this “spreading the wealth.” But what are you going to do? You want a liberal president, but that means you end up getting socialism as well.</p>

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<p>What’s this non-sense about wealth being spread around? Conservative talking point much? The root of the problem is California as a whole living beyond its means, essentially desiring services it’s not willing to pay for. If we’re not going to vote to increase government funding, then spending should similarly be adjusted to balance what is currently a disproportionate budget. Our incompetent legislature, along with our heavy emphasis on a direct democracy approach doesn’t appear to be helping either.</p>