Publication: Los Angeles Times
As the University of California faces huge demand for seats — and public outcry over massive rejections by top campuses in a record application year — state lawmakers are considering a plan to slash the share of out-of-state and international students to make room for more local residents.
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Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), who chairs the Assembly budget committee, said nonresidents made up only 5% of Berkeley students when he attended that campus three decades ago and returning to lower levels was “long overdue” — especially at the most highly sought after campuses. UCLA and Berkeley, he said, can’t significantly add more Californians without reducing nonresidents because they are at capacity with little physical room to grow.
At a February subcommittee hearing, Ting pressed UC President Michael V. Drake on whether UC should lower the 18% cap.
“It’s a complicated question,” Drake replied, adding he would be happy to work with legislators to find the right balance.
The Assembly also has supported the 10% plan and plans to flesh out details of its own UC proposal in the next several days.
“We have so many residents who are dying to go to UC and we want to give as many UC eligible students the opportunity to come to the University of California as possible,” Ting said.