A waste of time. Of course the kids that pay tuition want to pay less. What difference is that going to make to the adults that make the rules? These students all probably think raising the minimum wage to $13 or $15 is a good idea too. But how do you do that without charging others more for goods and services? Costs of all labor at UC will go up 20%. So, tuition must go up to cover it. Simple. Slash pensions and union contracts and you can lower tuition. But, in Ca, those things are sacred. We just can’t have it both ways.
Bottom line is…go to school outside of California. There are so many good reasons to move elsewhere if you are beginning a young life. There are hundreds of colleges where your COA will be lower. Even at private schools, you can easily get merit aid to bring your cost under the UC.
Not one of my 3 kids applied to any UC.
Jerry Brown could keep tuition down simply by taking the $250 million he has earmarked EVERY year now for the bullet train that nobody in Ca wants, except the politicians and contractors getting the business.