"Tuition Fees Are Too Low"

Remember that golden oldie from the Governor? Well, he and the regents are fixing that, so never let it be said that Arnold isn't doing the people's business:

Trustees of the California State University system this afternoon agreed to raise annual fees for undergraduate and graduate students by 10%.

The move means Cal State students will see basic fees rise $252 to $3,421. This does not include the cost of textbooks, housing or other expenses.

Meanwhile, the regents of the University of California, meeting today at UCLA, were considering a proposed 7% fee hike in that university system.

Under the UC proposal, student fees for state residents would rise about $495 to $7,347, including some individual campus costs but not including housing, books and other expenses.

In a time when billions more dollars are desperately needed to get our children proficient in seconday school, we're making it more burdensome for them to obtain higher education. If education is a jobs program, we're sabotaging our economic future with these exorbitent university costs.