Under AB1318, approved by the governor and the Legislature, undergraduate student fees for California residents will be reduced by 5 percent next year and graduate and professional school student fees for California residents will be frozen for two years. That funding will be in addition to the proposed budget request. The center piece of the technology effort is the development of the California Digital Library which initially will develop computer links among the libraries within UC and then expand to include materials from other schools and museums, both public and private. When completed, the California Digital Library will make the vast collections of the UC campuses available to anyone with a computer and a modem over the Internet. In keeping with the Regents' decision to seek new paths to diversity, a major effort will be made to implement an ambitious plan to attract more students from all backgrounds to the university.
Efforts are also underway to attract additional private and matching funds from public schools .