Where to put them

From the Bruin: UCLA is considering significant measures to enroll more in-state students, such as expanding course offerings and opening a satellite campus.* Chancellor Gene Block announced new university initiatives in the winter to fulfill the University of California’s goal of adding an additional 20,000 enrollment spots across its 10 campuses by 2030. The initiatives followed an increase in the number of applications to the university. This year, the university received more than 168,000 applications – more than double the number received in 2012, when there were 72,697 applications.

One idea is to increase four-year graduation rates, which would allow the university to enroll more students in incoming classes, Block said. Another way to accomplish this would be to increase the number of summer classes so students have more opportunities to complete their graduation requirements, Block added.** “When students graduate on time, it frees up space so the campus can add more undergraduates without necessarily increasing overall enrollment,” said UCLA spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez in an emailed statement. The university will also look to increase the number of seats available in courses, Vazquez added.

As the UC system’s smallest campus in terms of area, the university needs to pursue options that will not put more pressure on an already stressed campus, Block said... More significant changes are also being considered, such as utilizing online classes and opening a satellite campus, Block’s update said...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2022/04/17/ucla-explores-options-to-increase-in-state-student-enrollment.

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*There is no cheap land anywhere near the current campus. To find cheap land, you would have to go far away from Westwood to someplace like Palmdale. ????  (Palmdale does have an unused airport.)

**Just a note that the reason UCLA switched from semesters to quarters in the 1960s was to accommodate the incoming baby boomers. The idea was that there would be four equal quarters and thus students would graduate faster. It turned out that students didn't want to attend in summer. The result was that there ended up being effectively three quarters. And since you had added an intersession between the second and third quarters, arguably the university infrastructure was being used less efficiently than with two semesters.