Calling it a response to the dramatic drop in state funding, UC Davis’ chancellor today announced a plan to increase the campus’ undergraduate population by one fifth, one of the biggest leaps in years. The vision outlined by Chancellor Linda Katehi would swell the school’s undergraduate population to around 29,000 within five years. The total student population would rise to 37,000, surpassing Berkeley and making Davis the second most populous University of California campus, behind UCLA… The school said it’s in the early stages of studying whether it can add the students and faculty. Katehi… did not specify what percentage of the new students would come from out of state, a population that pays higher tuition.

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by Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee.

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