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UC TUITIONS MAY VARY BASED ON CAMPUS By SARAH SMITH • CONTRIBUTING WRITER Illustration by JANE RHO
UC Board of Regents revisits proposal to allow each campus to set its own tuition rates based on factors such as demand, freshmen and transfer application rate or yield.
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niversity of California campuses may be allowed to adjust their undergraduate tuition in an effort to help the university adjust to Gov. Brown’s budget cuts. UC tuition will be $11,124 system-wide starting Fall 2011, after the regents raised in-state undergraduate tuition rates last November. This is an eight-percent increase over Fall 2010 rates. Fees for student activities, health, parking and room and board will vary by campus. The proposal would allow each UC campus to determine its own tuition a certain percentage either above or below a baseline that has yet to be determined. “The idea is that you would allow each campus the flexibility to go up to a certain percentage,” UC Office of the President spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez said. “It’s not that [the individual campuses] would be able to set their own tuition.” In November 2010, the regents chose not to endorse the staggered tuition proposal when it was included among the 20 recommendations in UC Commission on the Future report. According to the report, the regents felt that staggered tuition would place several campuses at a disadvantage due to actual or perceived academic “tiering.” Little formal progress has been made since then — though
the idea was last discussed at the UC Regents’ meeting in December — and Vazquez said the now-informal proposal does not yet include concrete numbers. The plan was last discussed at the Dec. 13 UC Regents meeting and is being put back on the table for discussion at this week’s meeting. Most state university systems have a flagship university, which charges higher tuition than the others. The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin at Madison are two of these universities. “[Differential tuition] is not a new idea,” Vazquez said. “It’s something that has been discussed in light of dwindling state support.” The set of budget ideas is in response to the continuing budget cuts, now including Gov. Jerry Brown’s $500-million cuts from the UC system in his 2011-12 budget proposal. The cut would
eliminate about one-sixth of the current state funding. It is still uncertain how much each campus would charge and how they would decide pricing. Readers can contact Sarah Smith at sjs001@ucsd.edu.
Student Regent Resigns Due to “Personal Reasons”
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By Sarah Kang Staff Writer
Student Regent Jesse Cheng, who has served since July 2010, resigned from his position on Monday, May 16 due to “personal problems.” UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould released a statement the same day accepting Cheng’s resignation and announcing that Student Regent-designate Alfredo Mireles Jr. will assume a voting position, effective immediately. In an open letter posted on the UC Regents blog on May 16, Cheng said that
the accusation made against him was becoming a distraction in the Board of Regents. He spoke more on this matter in an interview with the Guardian. “If I stayed [as] N olan T homas the Student Regent, I’d pretty much be a lame duck,” Cheng said. “And there’s no point in having a lame duck [as a] Student Regent.” Cheng was arrested on Nov. 4, 2010
after an anonymous 22-year-old UCLA Law School student, “Laya,” accused him of having sexually assaulted her on Oct. 3, 2010. Criminal charges were initially dropped due to lack of evidence until Laya provided email evidence in which Cheng, her former partner, apologized for attempting to rape her. Cheng explained that he sent the email because she constantly made disruptive phone calls to him. “[The phone calls] were extremely disruptive and I was extremely stressed out,” See REGENT, page 3
Work Group Revises Student Conduct Code By Laira Martin News Editor
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New revisions to the Student Code of Conduct would extend the student appeal process with the addition of a council of provosts, if the changes are approved and enacted by January 2012.
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The new code is the result of a work group created by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue in May 2009. After two years of research, the group released a 15-page draft and is now soliciting student and faculty feedback before reevaluating the draft in Fall 2011 and putting the changes
into place. “The code was shortened from about 30 pages to 15 pages,” work group member and Associate Vice President of Student Advocacy Arohi Sharma said. “I think that says a lot. Because it was too long, students weren’t reading it. [Some felt] it was too verbose.”
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The code — which was last revised Aug. 29, 2008 — covers student discipline-related issues such as suspension, expulsion and the appeals process. Prominent changes to the code include a new introduction which cites the “Principles of See CONDUCT, page 3
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