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This year’s major buzzwords: furloughs, student fees, privatization, UC Regents.
They have been used to describe the key people and effects of the California and UC budget crises that led to the 32.5 percent increase in student fees this year and the subsequent uproar by the UC community.
And these words will continue to ring in our ears long after the hikes.
Current and future students, teachers and workers will all be affected. Lecturers have been laid off. Programs have been cut or consolidated. Employees have mandated days off. Students are paying more for less. As the student fees increase, as budgets and programs get slashed, the student body, along with the University community, will certainly change.
At City on a Hill Press, we’ve started a special online series to document this ongoing story and these ongoing changes. We will cover the background of the UC budget crisis, break down what happened in the past two years and continually update our readers with developing stories.
Most importantly, we will profile individuals whose lives are changed by the crisis. This is an ongoing project, as the impact of the crisis will continue to evolve and change as time goes on. We will be here to capture the changing higher education system.
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John Mock envisioned UC Santa Cruz as a university where the study of South Asian languages, culture and history would thrive, but the ever-steepening cuts the campus is facing have buried those plans. With Arabic already eliminated, UCSC’s languages are taking another hit — next year, the university will no longer offer instruction in Hindi, [...]
Kyle Thomson wants to study Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, but cuts to UCSC’s language department could dissolve his plans.
Fees push first-year student back to Michigan, despite his happiness at UCSC.
Budget cuts and packed classes lead one UCSC student to change her major and consider leaving the university.
At City on a Hill Press, we’ve started a special online feature to document the ongoing story of our student fees and the system’s changing culture. This week, a special preview of what’s to come.