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Assembly speaker blasts plan to limit UC enrollment
SACRAMENTO - (INT) - Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins is outraged over a plan by the University of California to limit enrollment of California students unless it receives more money from the state.

UC would agree to admit 2,000 new out of state students, but limit the enrollment of new California students and place a cap on out of state students at two UC campuses.

UC President Janet Napolitano told an Assembly budget subcommittee that the university will cap in-state enrollment at current levels while continuing to increase the number of nonresident students, pending on the outcome of budget negotiations with Governor Brown.

Atkins said Tuesday the University is trying to use students as bargaining chips.

She pointed out that “Over the past seven years UC’s core spending has increased 27%, while the enrollment of California undergraduates rose only 4%. Between 2007 and 2013, the number of UC employees making over $200,000 doubled," Atkins said.
Story Date: March 6, 2015
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