UC Students Protest Fee Hikes

University of California students protested the possibility of Tuition Fee hike on Thursday  despite the passing of Prop. 30 which aims to stop the increase in Fee.

UCSF Mission Bay campus, where the Board of Regents met today, and planned to picket during the meeting. Protestors wanted to "shut down the Regents' vote" on a measure called Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST), which would implement a fee increase for 61 UC graduate and professional programs.


Gov. Jerry Brown attended the UC regents meeting and tried to convince the regents not to increase the fee this year, especially since Prop. 30 passed giving the state "breathing room" in terms of having extra money.

But at that meeting, the regents said they need $276 million dollars from the state to keep tuition from going up after deep spending cuts. Brown didn't commit to that, and said that wasn't a realistic number.

The governor also attended Tuesday's meeting of the California State University Board of Trustees in Long Beach, where the board agreed to postpone a vote on three new fees at Brown's request.