UC admission logjam concerns Board of Regents

The University of California Board of Regents is concerned that the budget deal UC President Janet Napolitano hashed out with Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t address the system’s plummeting in-state admission rates, leaving the crucial logjam for the Legislature to fix… “We’re losing tens of thousands of students who are eligible each year for UC or CSU,” Johnson said. “I think that’s a big issue.” Michele Siqueiros, president of the Los Angeles-based Campaign for College Opportunity, agreed that “to not provide enrollment growth funding for UC or enough for CSU … is really shortsighted.” The wage gap between high school graduates and college graduates keeps growing, yet this deal does little to ensure that more low-income, first-in-the-family students can afford and find spots in state schools, she said. “I don’t think it bodes well for the future of the state.”

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by Josh Richman, The San Jose Mercury News.

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