SAN FRANCISCO (CBSLA/AP) – The University of California has reversed course, decreasing tuition for the first time in nearly 20 years, this after it had previously planned to hike tuition . The UC Board of Regents announced Thursday that tuition would drop by $60 for in-state students for the 2018-19 year, bringing the total resident tuition and fees to $12,570. The board is holding two days of meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay. The decrease is due to the end of a temporary surcharge which had been in effect since 2007 to recoup legal costs from losses in two class-action lawsuits which cost UC nearly $100 million. The UC had planned earlier this year to raise tuition for all students by $342. UC officials scrapped that proposal in April. In March, however, the board voted to raise nonresident tuition next year by 3.5 percent, to $28,992. The state budget that took effect July 1 boosted funding for the state’s public universities in an effort to stave off tuition increases. The UC system last lowered tuition for the 1999-2000 academic year. Regents approved a 5 percent tuition decrease for that year. In April, the California State University system chose not to raise tuition at its 23 campuses for the 2018-19 year. In 2017, amid large protests, the CSU Board of Trustees approved a 5 percent increase in tuition, bringing annual tuition for 2017-18 for a resident student to $5,742. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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