I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
I went to college for about a year in California.
I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.
College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.
I want all tuition to stop growing.
College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.