Now, however, Berkeley seems to be deflating that balloon by saying, in effect, not to worry, we'll fix it with little damage by cutting back on out-of-state and international students and graduate students. Those kinds of students have no pull in the legislature. From the LA Times:
UC Berkeley will boost the number of Californians and significantly reduce out-of-state and international students this fall as it scrambles to meet a court-ordered enrollment cap for the coming academic year just a few weeks before admission decisions are set for release. Overall, the campus plans to enroll about 5,370 first-year California students both in-person and online this fall, an increase of about 500 over last year. They would make up about 90% of all freshmen, compared with 70% last year. Among them, 4,370 would be enrolled on campus, while 1,000 would spend fall semester in remote classes and move to in-person instruction for spring semester beginning in January 2023, the university announced Friday...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-04/uc-berkeley-will-increase-california-student-enrollment.
Suggesting to politicians that maybe nothing needs to be done is a good way to ensure that nothing will be done. Just saying...
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