According to a UC Berkeley memo posted on the Romenesko blog, Cal’s Graduate School of Journalism is considering charging every student a $5,000 “professional degree fee” starting with those who enter the school in 2011.
Neil Henry, the school’s dean, sent a memo asking students already enrolled at the J-school for “advice and suggestions” about the fee. Henry also plans to convene an all school meeting in the library on Sept. 13, at 12:30 p.m., to discuss it. If the J-school goes forward with the fee, it would still have to be approved by the Regents.