California's Public Universities Adopt Steep Tuition Increases

By JEFFREY SELINGO

California's two public-university systems, which froze and then rolled back tuition by 10 percent during the economic boom of the late 1990s, agreed last week to increase their price tags for some 600,000 students by as much as 30 percent this fall.

The governing boards of the University of California and California State University...

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