That's interesting. So UC was 2x as expensive in 2000 than SUNY was in 1990. That made me go dig up the fee schedule at https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget

That's interesting. So UC was 2x as expensive in 2000 than SUNY was in 1990. That made me go dig up the fee schedule at https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/201415/documents/Historical_Fee_Levels.pdf https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/201415/doc... From that page, it looks like in 1990 the UC tuition was $864/semseter, and the min. wage was $3.80/hr. So it was roughly the same affordability as the SUNY system at that time (except for the gigantic UC student services fee that was more than tuition -- we didn't have that, and kept voting against D1 athletics to keep it that way). Going the other way, SUNY tuition was $3,400 and the min wage was $5.15 in 2000. That puts us 1/2 way to the rates we have today. So something clearly happened in the 1990s that raised tuition in multiple states. You can see that in the (SUNY) chart here (https://www.buffalo.edu/provost/oia/facts-publications/factbook/institutional-data/tuition-and-fees.html https://www.buffalo.edu/provost/oia/facts-publications/factb...) where there were 2 huge tuition increases (over 25% each) in the 1990s.