Five years ago, in his State of the State speech, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said:
In the past two years, college fees have increased over 40 percent. We must end this boom-and-bust cycle of widely fluctuating fees with a predictable, capped fee policy for college students and their parents. And we must limit the fee increases to no more than ten percent a year. Like our kindergarten through grade 12 schools, our colleges and universities must also share the burden of the fiscal crisis, but we must work to expand the dream of college. And we must not let the dream bypass our Central Valley. That is why my budget is funding UC's tenth campus -- UC Merced.Five years later, Arnold and the legislature are a long way from carrying out that promise. Will they rededicate themselves to it?
