If that happens, Mr. Hults plans to raise tuition to $20,000, which would add $1 million to the district's $5 million budget.
Both unions have attacked coalition plans to raise tuition fees as high as £9,000 while making 40% cuts to university teaching budgets.
The UCL occupation last year became the focal point of the widespread anger at government plans to raise tuition fees and cut the education maintenance allowance.
He says the government is "destroying the opportunities and life chances of a whole generation" with its plans to raise tuition fees.
Faced with drastic cutbacks in state financing, U.C. tuition increased 18 percent this school year, and the university's Board of Regents is expected to vote on a plan to raise tuition 8 percent to 16 percent a year through 2015-16.
One of its provinces has gone rogue, trampling basic democratic rights in an effort to end student protests against the Quebec provincial government's plan to raise tuition fees by 75 percent.
The increasing cost of going to university was flagged up again on Wednesday when it emerged that Exeter University plans to raise tuition fees to £9,250 for existing students, rather than just new students.
Tough quotas on student numbers may have to be introduced to avoid the creation of a spending black hole under plans to raise tuition fees at English universities to a maximum of £9,000, a powerful committee of MPs has warned.
The largely good-natured protest was organised by the NUS and the lecturers' union the UCU, who have attacked coalition plans to raise tuition fees as high as £9,000 while making 40% cuts to university teaching budgets.
SUNY's chancellor, Robert L. King, left, said he also wanted to develop a long-range plan to raise tuition automatically each year by an amount linked to an as yet unspecified price index.
