UC wants to enroll 3,600 more Californians next year, but funding shortfalls threaten plan
UC officials told regents Wednesday that the 10-campus university system could face a $504.7-million financial shortfall in 2025-26 if the state makes good on warnings earlier this year to reduce higher education funding as it grapples with a budget deficit… In the last several years, UC has been pummeled by demands to open more seats for Californians — including pressure by lawmakers — and has enrolled about 7,800 more California undergraduates between 2022-23 and 2023-24. Preliminary estimates for this academic year indicate campuses enrolled an additional 3,000 students, boosting the total number of California undergraduates to more than 206,000, the most in UC history.
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by Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles Times.