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NCES: Shrinkage Coming in California High School Grad Pool

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Yours truly made the chart above from data contained in a report by the National Center for Educational Statistics. (I was pointed to the report by Inside Higher Ed.) The chart comes from Table 15 of the report. For California, it suggests that the pool of [public school] high school grads in California will shrink in the coming years. I found some anomalies in the data projections elsewhere in the report for California and am not an expert in this area. Of course, for UC, the pool of potential undergrad admits is not limited to California or to public schools….

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Budget Down: Cram ‘Em in at UC-Davis

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UC Davis unveils major initiative to increase size of student body Sep. 21, 2011, Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Calling it a response to the dramatic drop in state funding, UC Davis’ chancellor today announced a plan to increase the campus’ undergraduate population by one fifth, one of the biggest leaps in years. The vision outlined by Chancellor Linda Katehi would swell the school’s undergraduate population to around 29,000 within five years. The total student population would rise to 37,000, surpassing Berkeley and making Davis the second most populous University of California campus, behind UCLA. Speaking at the annual convocation to…

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LA Times Wants a Pre-Commitment from UC

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The LA Times today runs an editorial lamenting UC tuition increases and increased admission of out-of-state students. See below for an excerpt in italics. But the editorial goes on to tell UC to pre-commit to reversals of these actions if the budget approves, apparently according to a formula. What in fact needs to happen is not unilateral action by UC but rather a negotiation between the governor, legislative leaders, Dept. of Finance, Legislative Analyst, interest groups, and UC in which future understandings are worked out. One-way pre-commitments are not the way to go. Yours truly has not noticed that the…

Bill Challenging Prop 209 Which Bans Affirmative Action in UC Admissions

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Undoubtedly, the bill – if enacted – would end up at the California Supreme Court. Bill allowing UC, CSU to consider race, gender, economic background in admissions passes key committee (excerpt) Beige Luciano-Adams, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 07/05/2011 A bill authored by Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, that would allow public universities to factor race, ethnicity, gender and economic status in student admissions passed the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee on Tuesday by a 5-3 vote. According to Hernandez, the purpose of Senate Bill 185 is to address a significant drop in minority enrollment at both UC and CSU campuses –…

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In-State Applicants Knock on UC Admissions Door But Out-of-State Proportion Rising

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At their upcoming July meeting, the Regents will receive projected undergrad admissions and enrollment data. California residents – while still the heavy majority of projected incoming students – are declining as a percent of total new enrollment. Applications were up but in-state admits, both as freshmen and as community college transfers, were flat. The report is available at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jul11/e1.pdf As the budget squeeze continues, UC increasingly will likely turn away in-state residents knocking on the admissions door:

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Higher Summer Tuition Possible for Out-of-State Students or Maybe Everyone

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The oddity that for summer session UC charges out-of-state students that same tuition as in-staters that was noted in a prior post on this blog may end. Alternatively, UC summer tuition may be raised for everyone. Excerpt from the Sacramento Bee website: A taxpayer subsidy that out-of-state students have been receiving for years is under scrutiny as the University of California system searches for extra revenue. …But partly due to measures taken to boost enrollment, (out-of-staters) don’t pay higher fees for summer classes… A decade ago, the UC system moved from a self-supported summer quarter to one funded by the…

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The Regents Are Coming; The Regents Are Coming

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The Regents will be meeting next week, May 17-18. By way of a preview, here are some excerpts from background documents for the Regents Committee on Finance, slated for May 18. Excerpt 1: Full document at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may11/f6.pdf Compensation. The baseline model assumes annual compensation cost increases of three percent for both represented and non-represented staff and faculty, in addition to the regular academic merit salary increase program, totaling $533 million by 2015-16. While compensation likely will continue to lag substantially behind the market, three percent increases are critical to retain and recruit the faculty and staff needed to maintain UC’s…

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Chancellor Block Radio Interview on the UCLA Budget

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On May 4, Chancellor Gene Block was interviewed on “Which Way LA?” concerning the UCLA and higher ed budget. He had written an op ed in the LA Times with the charge that folks in the legislature who had benefited personally from subsidized California educations were not adequately providing funding now. In his radio interview, he took a softer line. You can hear the program at the link below. The Block portion runs from minute 7 to minute 14:17:

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Time to Admit

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Data are now out on UC freshmen admissions for fall 2011. Some interesting numbers are available, particularly regarding UCLA. UCLA had the lowest admission rate for fall 2011 (25.3%) among freshmen applicants of any UC campus. It got more applications for freshmen admission than any other campus. Of the 106,186 applicants to UC, 57.9% applied to UCLA. (Applicants can apply to more than one campus.) The number admitted to UCLA in percentage terms over the past one or two years grew faster than any other campus (19.5%; 28.7%). Berkeley had the lowest proportion of California admits of any UC campus…

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UC-San Diego Tightening GPA Standards for Transfers from Community Colleges

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UCSD policy limits community college students: Raising GPA requirement to 3.5 will exclude many students from program (excerpt): Pat Flynn, March 18, 2011, San Diego Union-Tribune With transfer applications soaring and budget cuts looming, the University of California San Diego is raising the threshold on a guaranteed admission program for the state’s community college students. For years, community college students who took specific courses and obtained a 3.0 grade-point average could count on admission under the program called Transfer Admissions Guarantee, or TAG. But faced with growing demand and limited capacity, UCSD officials in recent weeks have notified community college…