Beware of the wild guesses of yours truly Friday, March 04, 2022
We have been following the question of whether a lower court decision saying UCBerkeley would have to cut back its planned enrollment. At one point in the blog postings, yours truly made a "wild guess" that somehow this verdict would not stand.* Well, at least I called that guess "wild." Read on: Capitol Alert of Sacramento Bee UC Berkeley must cut enrollment by thousands after California Supreme Court ruling Andrew Sheeler, 3-3-22
The University of California, Berkeley, must cut enrollment by thousands of students, after the California Supreme Court on Thursday denied the university’s petition for a stay on a lower court’s order. Under that court’s order, UC Berkeley must limit its student enrollment to 2020-21 levels, meaning the university must rescind at least 5,100 admission offers to reduce enrollment by 3,050 students. The Supreme Court’s ruling represents a 4-2 decision, with Justices Goodwin Liu and Joshua Groban dissenting. In the dissent, Liu wrote, “In addition to the acute loss to each of these prospective students, the City of Berkeley would also be denied the social and economic benefits of accommodating a full student population, while the university’s potential loss of $57 million in tuition would undermine California’s interests in expanding access to education. “This is not even to mention the contributions of leadership, innovation, and service that our state and broader society may lose if thousands of students have to defer or forgo attending UC Berkeley this fall,” Liu wrote. At issue is a California Environmental Quality Act lawsuit filed by the community group “Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods,” which seeks to block a student housing project. The group argues that UC Berkeley should not be expanding enrollment when there is not enough housing for existing students. “UC Berkeley has known since last August that they were subject to an enrollment cap, yet they took no action to notify applicants that UCLA Faculty Association Blog: First Quarter 2022
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