Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published November 19, 2009.
At California campuses students and union activists faced off with university police. Some gathered yesterday at the University of California - Los Angeles to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees. The Board of Regents voted today to approve the hike, which would raise tuition to more than $10,000 a year for undergraduate students. Police in riot gear confronted protesters. Fourteen were arrested.
The move is part of a pattern across the country, where lower acceptance rates, tuition increases, and cuts to college classes have made a four year degree out of reach for many students. In California, a coalition of teachers, students, and worker unions has formed to demand drastic changes to save the state’s university system. FSRN'S Africa Jones reports.
