Above is a chart on undergraduate applications, admissions, and actual enrollments for UC from the Accountability Report being considered by the Regents today. Click on the chart for a clearer image. Source: http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/index/chapter/2
A report in the LA Times today indicates that UCLA has the sixth largest contingent of foreign students (at all levels) in the US. USC has the largest. No other UC is on the list of the top 20 universities ranked by number of foreign students. The listing is below: Total Int’l Students 1 University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 8,615 2 University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign Champaign IL 7,991 3 New York University New York NY 7,988 4 Purdue University – Main Campus West Lafayette IN 7,562 5 Columbia University New York NY 7,297 6 University of California…
Middle income student attendance declines at UC Samantha Schaefer, 2011-10-30 Orange County Register Over the past 10 years, the proportion of middle-income students attending the University of California has declined at nearly twice the rate of California middle-income households, while the share of lower- and upper-income UC students has risen. Some analysts suggest the trend stems from repeated hikes in UC tuition costs, coupled with limited access to many kinds of aid for middle-income students, who are increasingly incurring larger and larger loan debt. “We’ve got some significant problems here,” said William Tierney, USC Rossier School of Education professor, Wilbur-Kieffer…
UC’s new admissions rules confuse applicants: The SAT subject exams are no longer required. If students take them anyway, good scores can help but poor scores won’t hurt, administrators say. (except) Larry Gordon, LA Times, 10/24/11 …(T)he new rules have caused widespread confusion and anxiety among students about whether to take the supplemental tests known as SAT subject exams. {Note from yours truly: These tests are the subject exams, not the regular SAT which remains required.} To boost their chances of UC admission, thousands of high school seniors are taking the subject exams even though the university has dropped them…
Given the chart above from today’s Sacramento Bee, will there be fewer UC undergrads in the late 2020s and beyond? The original chart is at http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/20/3990370_a3990291/california-birthrate-lowest-since.html Accompanying article is at http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/20/3990370/california-birthrate-lowest-since.html It’s an interesting question:
As readers of this blog will know, opponents of a bill that might have (not at all clear) weakened the anti-affirmative action Prop 209 – which applies to public university admissions, organized a bake sale at UC-Berkeley which caused much controversy on that campus. Governor Brown has now vetoed that bill. Jerry Brown vetoes bill to let colleges consider race, gender 10/8/11 Capitol Alert Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation today that would have allowed the University of California and California State University systems to consider race, ethnicity and gender in student admissions. The interpretation of Proposition 209, which prohibits the…
Jerry Brown signs California Dream Act 10-8-11Capitol Alert Gov. Jerry Brown today signed legislation allowing undocumented immigrant college students to receive public financial aid, marking California’s relatively liberal ground in a bitter row over immigration nationwide. The California Dream Act allows access to public financial aid, including Cal Grants, for undocumented students who came to the country before turning 16 and attended California high schools. Those students already are eligible for in-state tuition, and Brown in July signed a companion measure affording them access to private financial aid… Brown, a Democrat, supported the act during last year’s gubernatorial campaign, and…
Gov. Brown has until Sunday to decide to sign or veto the remaining bills on his desk. Among them is SB 185 – the bill that sparked the anti-affirmative action “bake sale” at UC-Berkeley. It is unclear what the governor will do, although the speculation yours truly has seen so far suggests he will sign it. On the other hand, recent vetoes suggest he is reluctant to fiddle with California’s direct democracy. (He vetoed legislation that would have indirectly impeded use of paid signature gatherers, for example.) And the delay in announcing what he will do suggests the governor is…
An earlier post on the UC-Berkeley affirmative action “bake sale” controversy noted that the issue that sparked that controversy was a bill – now on Gov. Brown’s desk – that would possibly relax the ban on affirmative action in UC student admissions enacted by voters in Prop 209. However, there are other changes in admissions standards underway that have received less attention in the news media. And another bill on the governor’s desk is involved. See below: UC turns career tech ed-friendly (excerpt) 9/30/11, John Fensterwald – Educated Guess A decade ago, 258 career technical education courses counted toward satisfying…
Racially heated posting sparks UC Berkeley outrage Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 24, 2011 A Facebook post announcing plans by a UC Berkeley Republican group to sell baked goods priced according to race, gender and ethnicity – “White/Caucasian” pastries for $2 and “Black/African American” pastries for 75 cents, for example – has drawn outrage on campus…The campus Republicans, who expect to go forward with their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” on Tuesday, say the event is meant to mock an effort by the student government to drum up support for SB185, a bill to let the University of California and…
