Departing Students

A report which will add to legislative pressure to increase enrollment at UC:

From the Sacramento Bee: 

A higher proportion of students from California started attending colleges based in other states in 2020 than ever before, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education. College enrollment dropped across the country during the first year of the pandemic, as many students chose to take a gap year rather than attend classes via Zoom. Still, almost 40,000 freshmen from California started attending a four-year college in another state in 2020, up by 27% compared to 2010. Those 40,000 freshmen represent nearly 22% of all freshmen from California who began at a four-year college in fall 2020...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article264096766.html.