The University of California plans to enroll 1,400 additional California undergraduates next year with no tuition increase under a 2020-21 budget approved Thursday by the board of regents.
The University of California plans to enroll 1,400 more California undergraduates next year with no tuition increase under a 2020-21 budget approved Thursday by the board of regents.
Association President Varsha Sarveshwar said students wanted fully staffed centers on every campus for students who lack legal status — especially as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to allow the Trump administration to end a program that protects from deportation those who were brought to the United States illegally as children.She also said campuses must better address what she called a “crisis in recruiting and retaining black and brown students.
Regent Sherry Lansing said there was “nothing more painful” than having to approve large and sudden tuition increases during the Great Recession, and she expressed support for the plan’s “built-in steady increases.”
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