Nov 27, 2007: Students lead push to halt fee hikes (Spartan Daily)
California's first ever student-led ballot initiative under the Tuition Relief Now campaign was filed with the Attorney General on Nov. 14.

Nov 27, 2007: The trouble with rising tuition and fees (The Daily Illini)
During our fall break, the student newspaper at the University of California-Davis ran a report detailing a brand new effort by a group of students, parents and activists to place a statewide referendum on the 2008 ballot that among other things would restrict raises in mandatory student fees. Whether or not their proposals are politically viable, this grassroots effort is to be applauded.

Nov 23, 2007: UC, Cal State students seek tuition relief: Local college students join signature-gathering effort for student-sponsored ballot measure. (OC Register)
IRVINE UCI freshman Andres Gonzalez is active in student government, but at night, he goes back to his family's home in Costa Mesa.

Nov 21, 2007: Higher education tuitions rise as students struggle (ABC 7 News)
Nov. 21, 2007 (KGO) - Cal State Senior Valencia Henley works two jobs and can barely afford the annual tuition increases.

Nov 21, 2007: Student-led campaign seeks to freeze UC, CSU tuition fees: 434,000 signatures needed for initiative to make November 2008 ballot (The California Aggie)
Tuition Relief Now filed California's first student-led ballot initiative with the state attorney general on Nov. 14 in an effort to freeze University of California and California State University tuition fees.

Nov 21, 2007: Garamendi calls for fee caps (The Daily Aztec)
With student fee increases each year, tuition at University of California and California State University campuses has almost doubled in the past six years, threatening to make higher education a luxury in the state.

Nov 20, 2007: Calif. students take tuition issues to ballot (The Daily Tarheel)
University students in California are taking the tuition war into their own hands.

Nov 20, 2007: Taking Up the Fight: Tuition Relief Now, a ballot initiative aimed at freezing tuition, picks up the slack of existing institutions (The Daily Californian)
Something to be excited about: A campaign wants to freeze current UC and Cal State resident undergraduate tuition for the next five years.

Nov 19, 2007: Lt. Gov. calls for fee caps (New University, University of California, Irvine)
As gas prices rise, Southern California’s housing bubble bursts and the holiday shopping season rapidly approaches, UC Irvine students are feeling the pinch—especially when it comes to tuition.

Nov 19, 2007: Regents’ budget plan could raise tuition: UC Board of Regents approves budget that relies on $70.5-million state grant to avoid increase in student fees (The Guardian, University of California, San Diego)
The UC Board of Regents approved its 2008-09 budget plan last week, which could potentially open the door for a significant hike in student fees over a multiyear period.

Nov 17, 2007: Students call for fee freeze (Vallejo Times-Herald)
Students fed up with rising tuition at public universities have filed a ballot initiative to freeze fees at University of California and California State University campuses.

Nov 16, 2007: How many students does it take to stop the California fee hikes? (California Progress Report)
These days the price of gasoline is about the only thing that rises as fast as the price of tuition.

Nov 16, 2007: Student coalition pushes for UC/CSU freeze (The Daily Californian)
Students and their families took a step Wednesday toward increasing college affordability by filing California’s first student-led ballot initiative to freeze public university fees.

Nov 14, 2007: Press Release November 14, 2007
Berkeley, CA – Today, students and families took a dramatic step toward college affordability by filing California’s first-ever student-led ballot initiative with the Attorney General.

Nov 14, 2007: California students attempting tuition-freeze ballot initiative (Chronicle of Higher Education )
California students are hoping to put what they claim is the first student-led ballot initiative before voters in 2008 after they filed the initiative today with the state’s attorney general.

Nov 14, 2007: CA students file ballot initiative to freeze tuition (Campus Progress)
California students today filed an unprecedented ballot initiative with the Attorney General that would freeze tuition increases at University of California and California State University schools for five years, and to tie tuition increases to the price of inflation after the freeze expires.

Nov 7, 2007: Campaign moves to stop college tution hikes: Goal to put intiative on Nov. 2008 state ballot (The lumberJACK: the student-run newspaper of Humboldt State University)
A group of students, parents and concerned Californians will aim to stop rising college tuition in California.

Nov 1, 2007: Commit to education (Contra Costa Times)
A survey released today shows that Californians understand the importance of our public universities and worry that cost is keeping youngsters from a college education. It's time for leaders in Sacramento to get the message.

Nov 1, 2007: Poll finds college fee hikes worry Californians (Inside Bay Area)
Californians are more worried than ever about rising college costs, according to a statewide survey.

Nov 1, 2007: Californians worried about rising cost of college (Sacbee.com)
Californians place a higher value on a college education than do Americans from other states, but many also have a sense that their children will not be accepted to a university or be able to afford it even if they are invited to enroll, according to a new statewide survey to be released today.

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