<p>Anyone else getting mad about it? The UC board also raised the salaries of some of the administrators too.</p>
<p>Voters in California have spoken. Funding of post-secondary education takes a back seat to K-12, health and welfare, prisons, and lower taxes.</p>
<p>Why do you think that the tuition increase is “unfair”? And why do you assume that a raise in salary for an administrator is unfair? </p>
<p>What if economic realities mean that in order to keep experienced professionals, you need to increase their compensation or face departures due to the marketplace? Ever think of that? Are they being paid excessively in relation to other college administrators given where they live? </p>
<p>Just because it might hit you in the pocketbook – doesn’t mean it’s wrong. You may not like it but by your post title, you’re implying that there’s something untoward going on. Evidence?</p>
<p>Yes…administrators get raises. That’s often necessary otherwise you lose them.</p>
<p>Frankly, I think the biggest reason for the increase in cost is to pay for Blue an Gold. The UCs raised the ceiling on that…and it’s a pricey promise.</p>
<p>If you don’t like it, you can go to a Cal State or look at other colleges for merit scholarships.</p>
<p>*The 9.6 percent increase will push annual undergraduate tuition and fees up by $1,068 for the academic year that begins in August, for a total cost of $12,192.</p>
<p>Provost Lawrence Pitts noted that UC’s generous financial aid program ensured that roughly 55 percent of UC students would see no fee increase.</p>
<p>Students with family incomes below $80,000 per year will continue to have tuition covered through grants and gift aid, while students from families with incomes up to $120,000 will be offered a one-year grant to cover the new fee increase. In addition, the university is working on ways to further expand financial aid for the 2012-13 academic year. *</p>
<p>I’m the parent of an incoming freshman at Cal (MechE). The tuition is STILL a bargain. If they don’t give their professors raises they lose them to other top schools, as m2ck points out. Stanford is just across the bay. </p>
<p>Interesting that my S also got his FA raised a little as well. I wonder if that was due to the latest tuition increase?</p>
<p>They might be justified in doing so, but it’s brutal at the very least.</p>