The boost is the first tangible evidence of a new approach, endorsed last fall by UC’s Commission on the Future, to raise revenue by increasing out-of-state enrollment from the current 6 percent. Goals range from 10 percent systemwide, to 20 percent at UC Berkeley, although UC officials say that will take several years to accomplish… Critics say the public university shouldn’t invite carpetbaggers to take the place of qualified residents. But UC officials say that since 2007, state funding has fallen short of covering the cost of all students, and the university has had to absorb the cost of educating them. Those undergraduates, currently 11,000, would be displaced by the nonresidents, UC says.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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