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An independent report commissioned by DC Appleseed and the Brookings Institution has concluded that it is "critical to the success and sustainability of" the new Community College of the District of Columbia to sever ties with the University of the District of Columbia. UDC, which has always had plenty of problems balancing the hefty costs of a four-year university and its open-enrollment-assisted reputation as a two-year college, split focus in August into the University and the Community College. Both operations still operate under UDC's administration.

The Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia are proposing a tuition increase at the David A. Clarke School of Law for the 2010-2011 school year. The proposed increase would see residents paying $4,425 per semester, and $8,850 per semester for non-residents. Currently, UDC law students pay $3,675 per semester, and non-residents $7,350.

Do you live in Cleveland Park or its surroundings? If you do, chances are good that much like this editor, you are a walking zombie today courtesy of a terrifyingly loud alarm that went off early this morning at the University of the District of Columbia.

City Paper's Mike DeBonis reports from today's University of the District of Columbia board of trustees meeting that the school's controversial tuition hike has been approved, by a vote of 13-3. The approval will allow the four-year university to increase tuition for District residents from $3,800 to $5,400 in the fall, and then to $7,100 the following year.