University of California Committee Approves Higher Tuition
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A University of California regents committee approved a 28 percent tuition increase amid protests by as many as 400 people who stormed metal barricades and broke glass at a meeting in San Francisco.
The full board is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the plan, which would end a three-year tuition freeze at the 10-campus system. The proposal set UC President Janet Napolitano, 56, the former secretary of Homeland Security, at odds with Governor Jerry Brown, a 76-year-old Democrat who won election to an unprecedented fourth term this month.