CA Universities were FREE in the 60's?

[kcrusher]

I just found out that in-state tuition for CA residents attending CA universities (Berkeley, for one) was FREE at least through the late 60's.

So - what happened? Why were we able to provide that then and not now?
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[megajoe]

I've lived where I am at now for 11 years, and tuition for the university I'm going to has more than doubled in that time. It raises in price every semester, it makes me sick.

[TrumpsHair]

well, ya know, that was a long time ago.

you could buy a nice house back then for $25 k.
I was going to junior college in LA, in the late 60's and it was free, but there was a tuition for state colleges, even in the early 70's.

[Mr. Dipity]

[xSALx]

And guess what...tuition is only getting more expensive. My tuition will have doubled next school year (my senior year) in comparison to my freshman year.
It's scary because tuition is only going be raised.

Freshman year (2002): ~ $1500 (per quarter)

Junior year (now): ~ $2700 (per quarter)

Senior Year: ~ $3200 (per quarter)

Total Bullshit. Not considering that books cost about $900 a year. If you have kids save for their college tuition, because with guys like Arnie it's going to get worse.

We're on the quarter system with the rest of the UC's except for Berkeley who are on the semester system.

[wing]

Houston's Rice University is about $35,000/year. It shocks me every time I think about it.

[xSALx]

Yep tuition isn't that bad in the UC's but I still think it's too much to pay compared to how much tuition has increased in the last 3 years. 35K is amazingly steep, that's why people can't afford college sometimes.

[Girl Toes]

Gosh, I should open a school.
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[kcrusher]

Ok, get this - at a rate of $35k per year, the 80 Billion dollar 'supplement' for the war in Iraq that was just requested would pay the tuition for 2,285,714 students. Multiply that by 5 for an in-state university charging $7000 per year.

As of 1999 there were 15 million students enrolled in college, including graduate students.

Kinda twisted how we can afford war, but can't afford education.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
- Hunter S. Thompson

[A.L.]

I work for a UC and we've been seriously feeling the pinch. We're fucked and Arnold is making it worse.