UC proposes major enrollment expansion
By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group
Students applying to the University of California were heartened to hear Tuesday that the university has a new plan to help meet the soaring demand of in-state applicants by increasing in-state undergraduate enrollment by 10,000 — roughly 20 percent — over the next three years.
The budget state lawmakers approved last June earmarked an extra $25 million for the University of California if the system registered 5,000 more in-state students by the 2016-17 academic year. But UC also plans to add 5,000 more slots over the two following years.
The proposed expansion follows a period of intense criticism of UC and months of intense wrangling with the Legislature over funding, tuition and enrollment.
