On March 23rd, students from across the UC system protested the UC Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay and their proposal to rewrite the UC’s fee policies with little to no public input. Currently, a student can reasonably expect that the fee levels when one enters school will stay consistent throughout one’s education. However, the new policy would give the Board of Regents the right to “establish fees at any level it deems appropriate.” This new policy will have implications for the future accessibility of the UC system. There is no transparency for the process of raising fees, so how can one know that a level the Board “deems appropriate” is fair for a public school? Thousands of lower and middle-class students, already worried about how to pay for the UC after recent fee hikes, will have no peace of mind that they can get through years of college without mounting ever-increasing debt.

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