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Email the UC Regents: Don’t Raise Our Tuition!
The UC Regents will have their first discussion on the 2015-16 UC Budget on Wednesday, September 17 at the September Regents Meeting.
With current discussion around a potential tuition increase, we must tell the UC Regents and President Napolitano that students will not stand for a tuition raise!
Use the draft email template below to send your thoughts to the UC Regents.
Have more to say? Share your personal story into your email to the UC Regents. Let them know how a tuition raise would affect YOU!
Email the UC Regents TODAY at regentsoffice@ucop.edu
[Sample Email Template]
Dear UC Regents,
The current tuition for undergraduate residents across the University of California stands at $12,192. While this figure has not changed since the 2011-12 academic year, the UC tuition freeze is quickly expiring. On September 17th, the UC Regents Committee on Finance will discuss the 2015-16 UC Budget, where a tuition increase will be brought to the table.
On November 13th, 2013, UC President Napolitano had confirmed a tuition freeze for the 2014-15 academic year that was dependent on an increase in state funding to the UC. Despite a 5% increase in the statewide budget allocated for the UC system, and the implementation of a new debt refinancing plan that is estimated to increase the UC administration’s cash flow by $80 million dollars per year for the next 10 years, UC students may face yet another tuition increase.
Additionally, Governor Jerry Brown has the opportunity to sign the UCSA and CSSA supported AB 1476, a bill which grants the University of California an additional $50 million in one time appropriations. Our campuses, while receiving a substantial amount of increased funding this upcoming year, still face a tuition hike. This is outrageous, especially considering that top administrators’ annual salaries continue to expand while students are forced to go further in debt.
UC students cannot afford a tuition increase next year, or any year, and are calling on the UC and the Regents to seek solutions to not only a tuition freeze, but a tuition rollback.
Students across the state are prepared to mobilize against any form of a tuition increase. Partners across the higher education systems are working together to ensure that the students of California have affordable, accessible, and quality higher education.
For these reasons, the students of the University of California system demand that the Board of Regents and President Napolitano continue the tuition freeze, and move toward a feasible tuition rollback beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year, allowing ample time for our request to be met.
Respectfully,
[NAME]
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UCSA Calls for UC Regents to Postpone Confirmation of Student Regent Designate Nominee
The UCSA Board of Directors decided today to call for the UC Regents to postpone the confirmation of Student Regent Designate Nominee Avi Oved. Visit the UCSA Press Page to learn more about the decision making process and next steps.
