Rejected for Being In-State
In California, where public higher education has experienced cut after cut, the choices are particularly difficult. For the spring semester of 2013, the California State University has told campus leaders they may not admit any Californian students to graduate programs. Given that tuition covers only a fraction of the costs of these students’ education, the university said it couldn’t afford them. But the system said its campuses could admit out-of-state students, since they didn’t cost the state money… Bill Nance, vice president for student affairs at San Jose State University, said, “It’s right at the head of campus priorities to pick up additional revenues…. We agree it’s not fair to Californians.”
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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Education.