UC Tuition Increase!!

[docmemi]

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ok guys. just read this article. i think its a proposal that they will vote on during mtgs on may 19-20. i dont want to excite anyone if im wrong, but this is what it says...

"? A graduate fee increase of 20 percent in 2004-05, rather than the 40 percent originally proposed. Fees would increase another 10 percent in both 2005-06 and 2006-07, and UC will develop a plan for graduate fee levels over the longer term. A plan also will be developed for professional school fees."

http://www.ucla.edu/budget/pressrel_may04.html

although that sucks...its better than 40%. finally nice to know. but sucks that it will go up 20 each year.

thoughts?

 

[Eraserhead]

Is this news? Someone explain this in a more simple way?

Does need based aid increase along with the tuition increases?

 

[docmemi]

waittt. thats what they are voting on...so its not official. but anyway this thread can be where we discuss and update the situation.

 

[somekevinguy]

umm.correct me if im wrong but med school...you dont pay graduate fees..you pay professional fees...and that's what projected to increase a lot......phd's arent projected to have as high of earnings as md's and hence md's get the larger fee hikes.....

 

[Alexander99]

Will there ever be news of a fee DECREASE during our time in med school? Lots of grad students get paid to do their graduate studies (at least the ones studying science.) How about they show us future doctors a little love as well. Afterall, without us, there would be no American healthcare system to bitch about.

 

[LoneCoyote]

Will there ever be news of a fee DECREASE during our time in med school? Lots of grad students get paid to do their graduate studies (at least the ones studying science.) How about they show us future doctors a little love as well. Afterall, without us, there would be no American healthcare system to bitch about.

I highly doubt we'll ever see a fee decrease. There is really no end to the budget mess in sight and higher ed is the easiest place to cut. Professional school tuition is different than grad tuition and it is easy to raise because the idea is that doctors, lawyers, and businesspeople will make enough to pay it back no matter what. I hope they devise a set plan for professional school increases, like they are trying to do for grad and undergrad. At least then we would know what to expect, unlike those who started 2 yrs ago and have had their tuition double.

 

[docmemi]

http://www.ucla.edu/budget/regents_fees_may04.html
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/budget/fee_fact_sheet.pdf

- Professional school fees will rise by varying amounts in response to the governor's proposal to reduce state funding for most professional schools by 25 percent and replace it with student fee revenue. The total fees paid by students in law, business, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, and theater/film/television programs will increase by roughly 30 percent -- or, more specifically, between 23 percent for law and 34 percent for optometry. (Nursing is exempted from the increases.)

The increases approved by the regents are $2,600 for theater/film/television; $3,800 for law, pharmacy, and optometry; $4,000 for veterinary medicine; and $4,500 for business, medicine and dentistry. As noted above, however, these students will not be subject to the 20 percent increase in nonresident tuition.

In addition, because the new fee revenue only replaces existing state funding, the regents' action authorizes the president to raise total fees for professional school students by an additional amount not to exceed 10 percent, if it is deemed necessary to preserve the quality of academic programs or to provide students with sufficient financial aid.

The professional fee increases approved by the regents do not fully meet the fee revenue levels assumed in the governor's budget so if the governor's budget is ultimately adopted, campuses will be asked to absorb an additional $5 million in unspecified cuts on a temporary basis while each professional program develops a longer-term plan for student fees in each discipline.

"The size of the professional fee increases, in particular, is troublesome to us all," Dynes said. "In the future, longer-term planning should give us a better understanding of where professional fee levels need to be and should help students plan their own budgets for changing fee levels."

 

[Mr Reddly]

regents' action authorizes the president to raise total fees for professional school students by an additional amount not to exceed 10 percent, if it is deemed necessary to preserve the quality of academic programs or to provide students with sufficient financial aid.

So, because the extra cost might be a burden, feel free to add on an additional 10% burden so that you can offer more grants and low interest loans to make the burden less of a burden...

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[CalBeE]

So, because the extra cost might be a burden, feel free to add on an additional 10% burden so that you can offer more grants and low interest loans to make the burden less of a burden...

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Don't hit your head too hard on the wall...if you hurt yourself, even the cost of living in the hospital for a few days will scare the heck out of you.

 

[Medikit]

It's a good thing for California, we really can't afford to spend like we were 🙁.