On July 20 18, the Board of Directors of the University of California held a two-day meeting in San Francisco. They plan to vote for the $8.7 billion expenditure plan from 20 18 to 20 19, including the first tuition fee reduction measures in the past 20 years.
After the proposed 60 yuan reduction is implemented, the basic tuition and miscellaneous fees will be 65,438 yuan+257,000 yuan per year, minus the legal fees surcharge in 2007.
Previously, students, school boards, teachers and alumni all demanded an increase in state funds to avoid a further 2.5% increase in tuition fees. After successful lobbying, lawmakers approved an increase in funding for the University of California, which was $65,438+$0.65,438+$75 million more than that originally planned by Governor Brown in June+10, 5438. This is enough to offset the initial tuition increase measures.
In the end, Brown and Congress agreed to increase the funding for the University of California by 347 million dollars. However, the governor said that two-thirds of the funds are temporary and one-off, not permanent.
Saves Waal, a student at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the board of directors of the University of California, Berkeley, said: "We have worked so hard to stop the increase in tuition fees and increase state funding, and the reduction in tuition fees is really icing on the cake. We will continue, and it should be the state government that subsidizes the public higher education system, not students or parents. "
Napo Riitano, president of the University of California, welcomed the increase in funding, but she expressed concern that most of the funding was only temporary. In an interview, she said: "The students we admitted have been studying here for more than a year. We need to hire teachers and provide classrooms and laboratories, which is not just a one-year investment. "
In the next few months, the ideas to be explored include three-year accelerated courses, more use of summer schools, online education and off-campus study, including studying abroad, internship and studying in cooperative schools.