UC Berkeley to admit more out-of-state students
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said Tuesday that his campus will be admitting as many as 600 fewer "unfunded" California students a year to offset a 20 percent cut from Sacramento. Those slots will instead go to out-of-staters. The problem is that the state picks up much of the university’s cost of educating California students – only it’s not paying for as many students as it used to. Nonresidents, on the other hand, pay their own, higher tuitions that actually cover UC’s cost of educating them.State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who has been a persistent critic of UC spending policies, called the move "extremely frustrating" and said it was time for the university to stop blaming Sacramento for all its problems. "All of us taxpayers thought we would have UC to educate our children," Yee said. "But more and more, it seems to take care of other individuals – be it high-paid executives or out-of-state students."
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by Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, The San Francisco Chronicle.