North Carolina and California also raise college costs
We aren’t the only state socking it to college students:
From the New York Times:
The University of California Board of Regents was expected to approve a plan on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent by next fall, to help make up for steep cuts in state funding.
The state allocation for the 10-campus system, one of the leading public university systems in the nation, was cut $813 million, or 20 percent, this year, leading to a hiring freeze, furloughs and layoffs.
The impact on the University of California campuses has been dramatic: faculty hiring is not keeping up with enrollment demand, and many course sections have been eliminated. Instructional budgets are being reduced by $139 million, with 1,900 employees laid off, 3,800 positions eliminated and hiring deferred for nearly 1,600 positions, most of them faculty.
From the Triangle Business Journal:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees Thursday approved a $200 tuition and fee increase for in-state students for next fall.
It’s a 5.2 percent increase for undergraduates and a 3.7 percent increase for graduate students. In-state undergrads now will pay $4,065 per year, while grads will pay $5,613.
Out-of-state undergraduates are facing a $1,127 increase, while out-of-state graduate students face a $732 increase. The out-of-state rate for undergraduates rises to $22,880. For out-of-state graduate students, the new rate is $20,543.
The tuition and fee increases will be presented to UNC System Board of Governors for approval.
Regardless of that board’s decision, students across the state face a tuition hike. The state General Assembly has adjusted state laws for the 2010-11 school year imposing tuition increases of $200, or 8 percent, whichever is less, on in-state students. Those dollars would not be kept by the universities but would go to the state’s general fund.
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Off topic
November 19th, 2009
3:47 pm
I apologize for starting this discussion with an off topic comment, but we already discussed this to death a few days ago.
My son is a HS senior and he is taking a “personal fitness” class that is a part of his graduation requirement. It has come to my attention that the only thing they have to do in that class is to run a particular distance within a set time – I think they may have different time limits for different grades. So, the only thing they do for the class is to just run around the track. Actually, my son told me that they have been inside the last several classes because of bad weather. They just simply play around. And, he told me that “Friday is a free day,” whatever that means.
Is this a course that has to be taken by all students to graduate from HS? What are we paying this teacher for? We can just have a parent volunteer, or even one of APs to just watch them run around the track – s/he could be doing whatever else s/he pleases. I don’t know if this is a particular issue with my son’s school, but it was very similar when my other son took the course last year, too.
At the time of budget difficulties, I just wonder why we have this teacher getting paid to do something that anyone can do – for much less money.
DeKalb Conservative
November 19th, 2009
4:56 pm
You’re going to see alot more of this. CA is probably going to be the biggest example because the state is in the worst condition because of its policies and funding. Let this be a lesson to GA on what large state budgets do.
oldtimer
November 19th, 2009
5:02 pm
UNC still less expensive than GA.
Maureen Downey
November 19th, 2009
5:05 pm
oldtimer, My understanding is that NC decided in the past to raise out-of-state tuition at a faster clip so it could keep the in-state amount down.
Maureen
Reality 2
November 19th, 2009
6:26 pm
I heard that the BOR (GA’s) decision included a moratorium on any new fee for the 2010-11 school year. That has never been mentioned here and I was wondering if it is true?
Gwinnett Parent
November 19th, 2009
7:44 pm
Why is Ga’s tuition so much more expensive than NC’s????
john madison
November 20th, 2009
3:41 am
Thursday, November 19, 2009
COMMUNIQUE FROM THE UCLA OCCUPATION
On 19 November at approximately 12:30 students occupied Campbell Hall at UCLA. The time has come for us to make a statement and issue our demands. In response to this injunction we say: we will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, we will occupy. We have to learn not to tip toe through a space which ought by right to belong to everyone.
We are under no illusions. The UC Regents will vote the budget cuts and raise student fees. The profoundly undemocratic nature of their decision making process, and their indifference to the plight of those who struggle to afford an education or keep their jobs, can come as no surprise.
We know the crisis is systemic – and that it reaches beyond the Regents, beyond the criminal budget cuts in Sacremento, beyond the economic crisis, to the very foundations of our society. But we also know that the enormity of the problem is just as often an excuse for doing nothing.
We choose to fight back, to resist, where we find ourselves, the place where we live and work, our university.
We therefore ask that those who share in our struggle lend us not only their sympathy but their active support. For those students who work two or three jobs while going to school, to those parents for whom the violation of the UC charter means the prospect of affordable education remains out of reach, to laid off teachers, lecturers, to students turned away, to workers who’ve seen the value of their diplomas evaporate in an economy that ‘grows’ without producing jobs – to all these people and more besides, we say that our struggle is your struggle, that an alternative is possible if you have the courage to seize it.
We are determined that the struggle should spread. That is the condition in which the realization of our demands becomes possible.
To our peaceful demonstration, to our occupation of our own university, we know the Univeristy will respond with the full force of the police at its command. We hear the helicoptors circle above us. We intend to learn and to teach through our occupation, humbly but with determination. We are not afraid. We are not going anywhere.
http://uclaresists.blogspot.com/2009/11/communique-from-ucla-occupation.html
Maureen Downey
November 23rd, 2009
3:50 pm
Off Topic, I sent your comment to DOE and this is the response I received Monday afternoon:
Maureen