May 21, 2012

Regents call on lawmakers to re-invest in higher education

The University of California Board of Regents, meeting in Sacramento May 16 for the first time since 1993, discussed the university’s budget and their legislative advocacy efforts aimed at making public higher education a state funding priority.

Regents, students and other UC supporters have spent much of the week meeting with state lawmakers and asking them to support a multi-year funding plan that would provide UC with modest but predictable increases in funding, including sufficient revenue to avoid a tuition increase in the fall.

Read the rest of Carolyn McMillan’s story in UC Newsroom.

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