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Monday, December 14, 2009
Death of the Master Plan? - Pete Schrag, California Progress Report
The system is also studying creation of an “IT campus”, a distance-learning enterprise that will deliver instruction on the Internet and through periodic meetings of students and tutors but without formal class atendance. That, too, would be a profit-making venture. UC has also begun to enter deals, such as the $500 million venture with BP and the University of Illinois for research in new energy sources. The universities are trying to mitigate the impact of tuition increases with additional financial aid. According to Yudof, virtually no UC student from a family with an income of under $70,000 pays any tuition. Through a combination of grants and federal tax deductions, moreover, most students from families making less that $180,000 will be shielded from at least the first year of tuition increases.
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