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Limit Out-of-State, Foreign Students at UC-CSU Schools, Group Says

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Any parent of a high school student applying to a UC or CSU school knows how hard it is to gain admission. Now a new report puts flesh on the bones of that belief.

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Entrance to California State University San Marcos. Photo by Chris Stone
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The report titled “Access Denied” also calls for major policy changes, including a cap on out-of-state and international students and phasing out financial aid to nonresident students.

“While the Master Plan of 1960 was visionary for its time, it no longer reflects California’s diverse and growing population or the future needs of the economy,” said the Campaign for College Opportunity.

The Los Angeles-based group wants more high school students to enroll directly into California’s UC and CSU systems, beyond what the current 12.5 percent for the UC and 33.3 percent for the CSU permits.

“California’s public four-year sector is simply too small to adequately serve the growing population and the increased demand by employers for better skilled workers,” the report said. “California policy-makers should at a minimum consider increasing the enrollment caps so that the UC once again draws from the top 15 percent of high school graduates and the CSU draws from the top 40 percent of high school graduates.”

  • Report: Access Denied: Rising Selectivity at California’s Public Universities (PDF)

That would cost a lot of money, and the group said:

“We recognize that such modifications have serious impacts on state investments in higher education. We believe a thorough review of how to grow enrollment, improve success rates for students once they are in college and explore innovation to increase college access is long overdue.”

In the long term, it said, expanding college opportunity and increasing the number of college graduates in California “will be worth every dollar.”

No price tag was attached to the proposals. But savings could come by reducing financial aid.

With so many “qualified and talented Californians seeking admission,” the group said, “the state should also phase out the practice of providing any aid to nonresident students until the financial needs of all low- and middle-income Californians are met.”

Another proposal: “The CSU system should construct a formal referral process so that CSU eligible students denied admission at impacted campuses are admitted to and are able to enroll at another regional area campus.”

Insufficient funding and tighter admissions standards have made it too hard for California high school students to win admission to UC and CSU schools, the report says.

The Campaign for College Opportunity report comes as the California State University system and the 10-campus University of California promise to make room for more in-state students as businesses in the state prepare for an anticipated shortage of more than 1 million people with bachelor’s degrees.

“It really goes to show how far behind California is in terms of sending students directly into four-year campuses to get a degree at a time when obviously more and more jobs require that level of education,” said Michele Siqueiros, president of the Campaign for College Opportunity, a Los Angeles-based advocacy group.

Despite the job market’s higher demand for skilled employees and more students interested in going to college, only 11 percent of Californians between 18 and 29 attend four-year public institutions, the report showed.

Students are far more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree if they start out at four-year institutions instead of two-year community colleges, yet California ranks No. 50 in the country in the number of students sent directly to four-year universities, Siqueiros said.

“California’s system of higher education was structured so the majority of undergrads would go directly into community college,” transferring later into four-year institutions to finish their degrees, Siqueiros said.

The study says state spending is at a 30-year low per student in a higher education institution, leading to a lack of spaces for qualifying students.

For the 2015-2016 school year, the University of California admitted 60 percent of California residents who applied, down from about 63 percent the year before, state data show.

By comparison, the acceptance rate for international students increased to 62.2 percent for the autumn of 2015 from 60.1 percent last year.

International and out-of-state students pay more in tuition than Californians, and critics have accused the university of admitting them at the expense of Californians.

The California State University system has been forced to turn away 20,000 to 30,000 qualified students for each of the past six years because of funding issues, a spokeswoman said.

“In the absence of adequate, sustained and predictable funding from the state, CSU enrollments cannot keep pace with the demand,” spokeswoman Toni Molle said via email.

— Reuters contributed to this report.

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