U. of California Backs Down From Broad Increases in Graduate Tuition

University officials have retreated from a plan that would have raised tuition for some 14,000 graduate- and professional-school students, and will instead seek increases affecting roughly 800 students, mainly in nursing. The nursing students are likely to see a rise of $619, far less than the $2,700 increase that they faced under the previous proposal. In November, the university system?s president, Mark G. Yudof, sought to raise fees on 56 graduate and professional programs. But the proposal was put on hold after Gov. Jerry Brown said the idea was unseemly in light of the passage of Proposition 30, a ballot measure that increased some taxes and warded off more steep cuts at California?s public colleges.

?It?s a balancing act,? UC system spokeswoman Dianne Klein said of the much-reduced tuition proposal. The university needs enough money to maintain ?top-notch programs to attract the best graduate students, but we also don?t want to alienate the people who make the decisions for state funding for the university.?

However, she warned that the tuition freeze for most graduate and professional school students may not last beyond the 2013-14 academic year. ?This is not a long-term blueprint. This is the very minimum we believe we need to go another year. It?s not a sustainable model,? she added.

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