Underrepresented Minorities Hit Hard by California Graduate Study Fees: ...“Overwhelmingly, these individuals go back to their communities to work,” says Dr. Michael Ellison, minority affairs committee chair for the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions.Yet, ever-climbing student fees at all UC campuses make it more challenging to attract individuals like Godoy, a first-generation college student, to health-science and related graduate-level programs. Along with a 32 percent systemwide fee increase that UC regents approved less than a year ago in response to an ongoing state fiscal crisis, regents approved myriad wide-ranging spikes for professional degree programs that ran as high as 64 percent. Professional degree fees (PDFs) make up a portion of the total retail price for a graduate education.
