Where Does UC Tuition Go?
Where Does UC Tuition Go?
by Bob Meister,
President, Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA)
Professor of Political and Social Thought, UC Santa Cruz
UC feels free to use Educational Fees however it pleases without
accountability. That’s why it can pledge “ed fees” as collateral for
construction bonds and use them to pay debt service.[1] In the past week,
I have discovered another, equally disturbing, consequence of UC’s refusal
to be accountable for its use of “ed fees:” It has allowed (or perhaps
more accurately used) the rapid growth in “ed fees” to dramatically
increase the disparities in the per student funds it provides to each
campus. As tuition rises, students are not getting what they think they
are paying for on their own campuses, and the entity they are paying has
not been transparent about where the money goes…
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