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6-Year Graduation Rates at UC

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A group called the American Institutes for Research has been receiving publicity for a database on higher ed and, in particular, dropouts from 4-year institutions. The group describes itself as follows: AIR’s purpose is to conduct and apply behavioral and social science research to improve people’s lives and well-being, with a special emphasis on the disadvantaged. Website at http://www.air.org/ Its database includes data on 6-year graduation rates from federal data sources during 2003-2008, i.e., what percentage of incoming freshmen graduate within 6 years. You can find the database at http://collegemeasures.org/ The report goes beyond graduation rates and puts dollar figures…

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California Supreme Court Reported Skeptical of Challenge to In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students

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A 2001 California law allows students who graduate from a high school within the state to attend any public higher education institution at in-state (resident) rates. Thus, a foreign-born student who was brought to the U.S. illegally and attended a California high school is treated the same for tuition purposes as any other state resident. (Such students are ineligible for various federal assistance programs, however.) A challenge to the law was brought recently and heard by the state Supreme Court. Excerpt from a report on the L.A. Now blog of the LA Times: October 5, 2010 – The California Supreme…

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What Exactly is an Aspirational Graduate Student?

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Below is an excerpt from California Watch: UC commission looks to boost grad student enrollment (excerpt): Erica Perez, September 2, 2010 A commission that advises the University of California on its long-term goals this week recommended increasing the proportion of graduate students at the UC from 22 percent to 26 percent of the student body. The 25-member UC Commission on the Future discussed the need for more graduate students at their Aug. 31 saying the move was necessary to serve the university’s research mission and educate California’s future professors. Considering the university’s tight budget, however, moving to increase graduate students…

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Out-of-State Recruiting of Dissatisfied California Students

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Inside Higher Ed today has an article about a New York State college recruiting California students at community colleges due to limited course offering here. Does this matter for UC? UC is pushing the idea of more transfer students from community colleges. And the legislature is anxious to see more transfers. The ad on the left appeared in 60 community college newspapers. Full story at: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/12/cobleskill

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Ronald Brownstein Comments on UC and CSU

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The Coming Campus Collision: Public universities face expanding needs and contracting resources. Aug. 7, 2010by Ronald Brownstein IRVINE, Calif. — The orientation tours that I attended last week at two University of California campuses looked like a postcard from the next America. Demographers project that minorities will comprise a majority of all Americans under 18 as soon as 2023. But that future is already here in the sprawling University of California system, where African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and all other nonwhites represent 70 percent of students, up from about half two decades ago. These campuses are not only cultivating the state’s…

California High School Grads Entering UC

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CPEC has released figures on the demographics of entering UC freshmen as percent of Calif. high school grads by various cuts. Highlights: White 5.7%; Black 4.4%; Latino 4.0%; Asian 23.1%; Male 6.4%; Female 7.7%; Total 7.1%. Note that these data do not take account of community college transfers and do not include those who entered private colleges. Details at:http://www.cpec.ca.gov/StudentData/CACGREthnicity.aspMusic at: