SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Latest on a tuition increase at the University of California (all times local):
1:05 p.m.
The University of California has approved its first tuition increase in seven years.
The university system’s Board of Regents voted Thursday for the plan to increase tuition by 2.5 percent a year during its meeting in San Francisco.
The vote came after UC President Janet Napolitano called for the annual tuition increase of $282 and a bump in fees by $54 for the 2017-18 school year.
Many students have vocally opposed an increase.
Critics have said higher tuition puts too much burden on students already struggling to pay for their educations.
Napolitano said hikes are needed to maintain quality of at the 10 campuses that comprise the nation’s largest public university system, where the student population has grown each year and state funding has been cut. Tuition has been frozen since 2011.
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9:50 p.m.
The University of California’s governing board plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would raise tuition for the first time in seven years.
Many students have vocally opposed the increase, staging protests including one that briefly disrupted the last of Board of Regents meeting in November. Critics say the higher tuition would put too much burden on students already struggling to pay for their educations and force more students to drop out of college.
UC President Janet Napolitano says the increases are modest and needed to maintain the quality of the nation’s largest public university system, where the student population has grown each year and state funding has been cut. Tuition has been frozen since 2011.
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