Ructions at the University of California Continue. (December 15, 2009)

Last Month the University of California Board of Regents approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees 32% to more than US$10,000 a year by next September, to partially overcome the US$813 million (20%) cut in the current year's budget which has led to a hiring freeze, furloughs and layoffs.

Money troubles continue to rock the state's universities. Two unions representing more than 15,000 research employees at the UC's ten campuses are set to picket against pay cuts. They are particularly calling attention to rising funding accruing  from federal research grants.