Moving Toward Michigan

This blog previously noted the rise in non-California students at UC and UCLA (who pay full tuition) that has occurred as a response to the ongoing budget crisis.  See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/04/it-doesnt-seem-to-add-up.html.  Today, the Sacramento Bee features the story and notes the “Michigan Model” as analogous to UC’s approach.  Although UCLA has said it just adds non-state students (as opposed to displacing in-state students), it appears from the numbers as reported in the previous post that there is some displacement.

Excerpts from the Bee:

…UC officials are aggressively courting non-resident students through college fairs and high school counselors…

System officials say the push beyond California's borders is overdue and that other elite public schools such as the University of Michigan fill a third or more of their slots with out-of-state students. About 7 percent of UC undergraduates are nonresidents, though the percentage is higher at UC Berkeley and UCLA…

"It helps us support Californians," said UC President Mark Yudof outside the Capitol on Tuesday as he prepared to lobby lawmakers for more funding. "Our budgets were cut a billion dollars. We charge the nonresidents over $30,000 each, and it frees up some money to educate resident Californians." …

UC policy forbids the proportion of out-of-state undergraduates to exceed 10 percent systemwide, and it expects to stay under that level despite admitting more nonresidents…

Full article at http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/03/4461864/uc-looks-beyond-california-to.html