Double Major

Abstract

One November morning in 2009, about 100 students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), seized a couple campus buildings to protest the 32% tuition hike passed by the UC Board of Regents. Starting the following spring semester, they would have to pony up an additional $585, right before a second increase of $1,344 scheduled for the fall. Those who could afford returning would fork over, on average, more than $10,000 the next year—triple the cost a mere decade ago.