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Students and advocates press regents to keep tuition caps, restore aid and extend protections for student parents
Summary
Multiple student speakers and advocates urged regents to reject proposed changes to the cohort tuition model, maintain return-to-aid levels, cap professional degree supplemental tuition increases and expand institutional aid for students from mixed‑status families.
Students, student leaders and advocacy groups told the University of California Board of Regents they are concerned about proposals to change the cohort tuition model and professional degree supplemental tuition (PDST) policies and urged the board to protect financial aid. Speakers described the cohort tuition model — which sets tuition for an entering undergraduate class for multiple years — as leaving future cohorts to shoulder higher costs. Lucia Hermoso, a legislative aide to the UC Student Association and a UC Santa Barbara student, said proposals to raise the annual cap on tuition increases from 5% to 7% and to lower the…
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