UDC Tuition Hike Unfortunate

As I type this, University of the District of Columbia students are preparing to rally in protest of a declared tuition hike at the long running community college. UDC's new president, in place for five months, is backing the doubling of tuition for four-year students as part of an effort to distinguish the bachelors degree program from the two-year associates degree and other programs.

The above may be an oversimplification of the situation, but any way you explain it's still absurd to me. I have a big question mark about increasing the burden to attend school, especially for an institution whose main purpose is to provide affordable educations to those who might otherwise not be able to afford college. It's a community college for crying out loud. And why double tuition? If anything, wouldn't a more gradual increase be more appropriate?

When school leaders make decisions like these, I wonder if it's less about benefitting the students and more about padding the resumes and CVs of those in charge.