Thursday, April 15, 2010
UC Berkeley Closes Door to State Students
Politics / Education Robert Gammon — Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:13 AM
UC Berkeley is cutting back on the number of California residents that it accepts and taking more out-of-state students in an apparent effort to raise money. Out-of-state students pay three times as much in tuition and fees at UC as those from California. The Mercury News reports that number of in-state offers at Cal dropped from 11,184 this year to 9,459 next year, while the percentage of out-of-state students on campus will more than double.
Incredibly, a top UC Berkeley official had the audacity to claim to the Merc that the out-of-state students “do not take space from a California student.” Say what? The campus is accepting fewer in-state students, while increasing the percentage of out-of-state students on campus, and yet this is somehow not displacing California residents?
Meanwhile, there’s a bipartisan movement afoot in the state Legislature to limit student fees increases in the UC system, according to the Chron. Sounds good. But doesn’t that mean Cal will then use the proposed changes as yet another excuse to slash the number of state residents it accepts, and then claim again that it’s not closing its doors to Californians?
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“Incredibly, a top UC Berkeley official had the audacity to claim to the Merc that the out-of-state students “do not take space from a California student.” Say what?”
Not surprised!!
I am a 20 something year old California resident who will be attending graduate school on the east Coast.
The one thing I have learned already in life is that there are a lot of liars, incompetent people, and some people are both incompetent and liars.
Unfortunately, the people in the educational field [teachers and administrators] and in the legal field [attorneys and lawyers] are just out right congenital liars. They rarely tell the truth.
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You can't run the top rated University on wishes and rainbows, it takes cash. If the state won't fund UC then it needs to go else where for money. I don't see why you think this is unfair... it's basic economics: you can't have something for nothing.
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