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UC regents voted Wednesday to renew a “tuition stability” program despite student opposition, citing state funding cuts and campus deficits.

The plan caps annual inflation-based increases at 5% per year and reduces tuition revenue directed to financial aid from 45% to 40%.

UC leaders say the plan will help more low and middle-income students pay to college. Students warned it will deepen debt burdens.

Confronting increasing costs and decreasing state and federal funding, the University of California regents on Wednesday approved a tuition hike lauded by UC leaders but fiercely opposed by students.

The board voted 13 to 3, with eight regents absent, to renew a controversial “tuiti

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