tuition

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UCLA to Charge Credit Card Fee to Students

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An earlier blog noted that budget pressures are pushing the University to add fees for things that were not previously charged. From California Watch yesterday comes: UCLA students who use credit cards to pay their university bills better brace themselves: The university will start charging a 2.75 percent credit card processing fee this fall. It’s an example of how universities are passing certain costs along to students amid a statewide budget crunch. Administrators say the move allows the university to stop absorbing the cost of processing credit card transactions – fees that credit card companies charge. Transferring that cost to…

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Straws in the Fiscal Winds: State and Campus

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Various straws in the state and UCLA budgetary winds today. The controversy over whether legislators will get paid after having passed a budget by the constitutional deadline which was then vetoed remains. Politicos are waiting state controller John Chiang’s decision on whether the vetoed budget was “balance” by some definition. Whatever he decides seems likely to be litigated. No one who has been state controller has ever said that his/her sole political ambition since age 4 has been to be state controller. I would venture to say that all of them would like to “advance” to some other office eventually….

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Higher Summer Tuition Possible for Out-of-State Students or Maybe Everyone

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The oddity that for summer session UC charges out-of-state students that same tuition as in-staters that was noted in a prior post on this blog may end. Alternatively, UC summer tuition may be raised for everyone. Excerpt from the Sacramento Bee website: A taxpayer subsidy that out-of-state students have been receiving for years is under scrutiny as the University of California system searches for extra revenue. …But partly due to measures taken to boost enrollment, (out-of-staters) don’t pay higher fees for summer classes… A decade ago, the UC system moved from a self-supported summer quarter to one funded by the…

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No End in Sight (for tuition increases)

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UC leaders: Tuition hikes nearly inevitable (excerpt) Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times, 5/18/11 The University of California may charge higher tuition each of the next five years even if the state stops cutting its budget, UC leaders said Wednesday. Administrators presented four budget scenarios Wednesday to help the Board of Regents plan future budgets. Under the rosiest scenario — which is unlikely, given the state’s financial crisis — UC would raise tuition 8 percent per year, starting in 2012… Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed $500 million cuts to both the 10-campus UC and 23-campus California State University systems, and the…

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The Regents Are Coming; The Regents Are Coming

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The Regents will be meeting next week, May 17-18. By way of a preview, here are some excerpts from background documents for the Regents Committee on Finance, slated for May 18. Excerpt 1: Full document at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may11/f6.pdf Compensation. The baseline model assumes annual compensation cost increases of three percent for both represented and non-represented staff and faculty, in addition to the regular academic merit salary increase program, totaling $533 million by 2015-16. While compensation likely will continue to lag substantially behind the market, three percent increases are critical to retain and recruit the faculty and staff needed to maintain UC’s…

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Differential Tuition Pricing at UC: The Sky Would Fall Says the Contra Costa Times. But Would It?

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The Contra Costa Times on 5/12/11 had an editorial indicating that differential tuition among the UC campuses would be a bad idea. Below is an excerpt: FINANCIAL ADVERSITY can spawn positive innovation; it also can lead to huge mistakes. Establishing variable tuition at the University of California campuses would be the latter. Advocates of different tuition rates for each campus argue that it would allow individual campuses to raise more revenue during a time of tight state budgets and that consumer demand should play a bigger role in the cost of education. However, the likely result of variable tuition is…

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Viewpoint from Irvine: Differential Tuition at UC Would Devalue Cheaper Campuses

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UC Irvine film studies professor Peter Krapp, the immediate past chairman of the UC system Academic Senate’s University Committee on Planning and Budget, responded to the LA Times’ May 9 article, “University of California weighs varying tuitions at its 10 campuses.” He argues differential tuition at UC would create or reinforce a hierarchy of academic prestige so that the more expensive campuses would be deemed better. Excerpts from his LA Times “blowback” online op ed: Proposing different tuition for each University of California campus is shortsighted and ill-considered… Stratification would fundamentally change the UC system. Each campus would need separate…

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Differential Tuition at UC?

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University of California weighs varying tuitions at its 10 campuses (excerpts)Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2011 Should an education at UC Berkeley cost more than one at UC Santa Cruz? Should a student pay $11,000 in tuition at UC Riverside while his friend is billed $16,000 at UCLA? …Nationally, UC is late to the debate, with many other state university systems long ago having established differential tuitions for their campuses… …Perhaps not surprisingly, officials at UC Berkeley and UCLA have been among the most vocal advocates for some freedom in setting undergraduate tuition rates, which now are established…

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Rocketing Tuition at UC Forecast Under All-Cuts State Budget Scenario

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Higher education leaders fear an all-cuts budget will be devastating (excerpt): Beige Luciano-Adams, 4/16/11, Pasadena Star-News As students across the state continue protesting cuts to higher education, state senators on the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee convened this past week for a depressing look at the devastation an “all-cuts” budget could unleash on California’s public education system. The damage for higher education, as outlined in recommendations from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, would approach $3 billion, including about $800 million slashed from community colleges and $1 billion dollars each from the California State University and University of California systems …In…

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Waiting for my comment to register with the Register

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Above is a screen image of an article of 4-14-11 from the Orange County Register. The article deals with the governor’s comment – noted in an earlier post on this blog – that UC tuition could rise substantially in the absence of a deal on the state budget. However, the OC Register inserted in the text of the article – and to the right of the headline – a link to a database of all UC salaries. Yours truly posted the following comment/request on the article this morning: Can we please see the database of all salaries of employees of…