John Douglass

University of California, Berkeley

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Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan

John Douglass on KCRW

The UC Board of Regents approved a controversial tuition increase today. Under the plan, fees would go up as much as five percent each year for the next five years.

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Education is the subject of two propositions on next week's ballot. Proposition 30 is supported by Governor Brown.

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