Davis Tuition Most Likely Increasing

[4theanimals]

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The California State system just insituted a 10% increase. The Uuniversity of California system is voting on a 10% increase in graduate fees at 1pm PST. It's highly unlikely they will vote it down after the CSU system voted theirs in.
Here is the story: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics&id=5115873.

 

[QTkitty]

I heard about this on the news this morning and am appalled! CA is having so many financial issues right now I can't honestly say I'm surprised though... I think they said it was going to be a 7% increase though for the UC system and 10% in the Cal State system (not like it makes a big difference).

 

[4theanimals]

Hey QTKitty. Your right on the 7% - that's for undergrad. The graduate fees are supposed to increase 7% to 10%. CSU just did 10% across the board. And yes, it is appalling, especially considering that the fees for vet school increased $10,000 from 2002 - 2005. Lord, only knows how much they will increase next year.

 

[4theanimals]

Oh and CSU fees have increased 94 percent since 2002. All while they are paying executives 100s of thousands of dollars and fighting with the faculty over giving them a pay increase. During that same period since 2002 the faculty got a 3.5% pay increase. The faculty are racking up 8 years worth of debt themselves (like us vet students) to make medicore pay - starting aroun 40k. It's just all so wrong.

 

[QTkitty]

Yeah, I've run into a lot of petitions and threats to strike both by faculty and students at my CSU school... sad day for California state schools

 

[flokemahe]

approved by the UC Regents today for professional schools

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/14/BAGB4OL5HU13.DTL

 

[QTkitty]

CA residents may as well pay private/ out of state tuition... Oh, and since when are schools responsible for the "mental health" of students? For some reason I have a hard time believing that this "crisis point" justifies the HUGE fee increase!

 

[kate_g]

Oh, and since when are schools responsible for the "mental health" of students? For some reason I have a hard time believing that this "crisis point" justifies the HUGE fee increase!

My mental health would be better served by a decrease in tuition... 😉

I'm all for complaining, but how many of us actually knew about this vote far enough ahead of time to write letters to our representatives, or make a visit to Sacramento? How many are willing to *not* enroll at Davis in the hopes that a drop in enrollment would bring tuition down for future classes?