The rise of college tuition is in correlation with the amount of debt students leave college with. College has become something of a luxury to some students. This causes less people to buy homes and in turn hurts the economy.
This articles discusses the protest on January 19th of this year and the arrests that were made in an attempt to lower tuition fees. Supposedly, students came from all UC colleges to Riverside in order to protest the ridiculous tuition hikes.
This website pretty much goes straight to the heart about where and why the cost of tuition is 2-3% higher than inflation. The other good reason I didn't realize is that univerisites are striving to be the best so they will spend more money which we end up paying for.
This article is about faculty and students who decide to fight against the rise in tuition and the loss of jobs at the campuses in 2009. They decide to do a "walkout" in an attempt to stop this.
This includes the recent protest at UC Riverside due to the tuition increases. There was to be a UC Regents meeting there and students showed up to get their opinions out in the open.