UC considers limiting out-of-state enrollment
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
The University of California is beginning to have second thoughts about its highly successful effort to bring more out-of-state students onto its campuses.
In a bid to boost revenue, the system five years ago began to aggressively recruit students from other parts of the country and from around the world. The significantly higher fees those students paid brought in about $400 million extra last year. But the effort stirred a backlash from California parents, who suspected that their children’s admissions chances were being hurt.
UC officials have taken great pains to argue that qualified California students were not losing slots to those from New York or China. But the complaints from parents and state legislators recently prompted UC President Janet Napolitano and other system leaders to consider putting limits on out-of-state enrollment.
Any such retrenchment faces its own set of complications.
In 2009, a year into the recession that badly hurt higher education funding, a commission on the future of the University of California recommended recruiting outside students whose tuition — triple what state residents pay — would help offset cuts in tax revenue.
Why would California taxpayers want to support out-of-state/country students to supplement our universities? If we pay to educate our students – great. I am not up for providing an educational avenue for out -of-state students UNLESS there are no California residents waiting to get into OUR SYSTEM.
It smacks of the same issue where Heavenly imports employees from out of the country to work jobs that our residents should have – even if it means they might have to boost the pay a bit. Heavenly gets a break to use our land for profit, while importing help, when local help is available.
Amen Irish Wahini!
Irish, if you read the entire article, taxpayers do not pay to support out of state students because their tuition is a little over 35k a year vs in state of 12k. This increase in tuition more than pays for the education plus helps pay for in state scholarships as well as allows less tuition costs for instate students. In other words without out of state students in state students would be paying more.
I was in college in the 1960s. One thing I note is that administration employees numbers have absolutely gone through the roof. There are Deans of everything at 6 figure salaries and no teaching responsibilities, (Someone please explain what a “Dean” of student Services does.) Once, the title “Dean” was an academic position. Every Dean has one or two assistants and a non academic budget which must be paid for. It is totally out of control.
Somehow the whole management structure needs to be overhauled, but of course the college administrators will never consider this.
Nowhere is this factor more evident than at LTCC who is looking for 100 million bucks for a 2 year school averaging far less than 2000 students.
I believe there needs to be a serious Legislature driven solution imposed from the Calif Government to resolve costs of education and to ensure that California state schools are really running for California citizens.
Finally….NO on measure F.