Declining rate of state resident enrollment at UC alarming
The shift over the past decade should alarm Californians who consider that UC’s first mission is to serve state residents. In 2005, 95 percent of the enrolled freshmen systemwide were state residents. By 2014, that dropped to 83 percent. At Berkeley, the decline was even sharper, from 92 percent in 2005 to 73 percent in 2014… The governor in his original budget proposal for this fiscal year sought to freeze out-of-state student levels. But the spending plan approved in June did not include that freeze. UC says it plans to keep enrollment of state residents flat for the upcoming year…
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by The Editorial Board, The Contra Costa Times.