UC Berkeley could be forced to cut enrollment by 3,050 seats under high-court decision

[ripcord]

Source: Los Angeles Times

The California Supreme Court on Thursday declined to lift an enrollment cap on UC Berkeley, leaving one of the nation’s most popular campuses scrambling to cut its incoming fall class by one-third, or 3,050 seats, just weeks before it was set to release admission decisions.

The high court rejected the University of California’s appeal to stay a lower court ruling issued in August that froze enrollment at Berkeley until the campus more thoroughly examined the impact of its burgeoning growth on housing, homelessness and noise. The court left intact a ruling by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman, who capped enrollment while the lawsuit filed by Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods proceeds.

Justices Goodwin H. Liu and Joshua P. Groban, however, sided with UC, noting the “acute loss” to prospective students, the negative economic impact on the city of Berkeley with fewer students and the university’s potential loss of $57 million in tuition, which could “undermine California’s interests in expanding access to education.”

But Liu wrote that the denial “need not be the end of the road” for students, noting that the university may renew its request for a stay in the Court of Appeal or the parties may negotiate a settlement.


Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-03/uc-berkeley-could-be-forced-to-cut-enrollment-by-3-050-seats-under-high-court-decision

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To be honest I don't see that the local home owners group's demands are unreasonable, if the university is going to increase the number of students then they need to build housing for them.

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. They can always do what the University of Arizona does

Require freshman and foreign students to live on campus. Once you turn to your second year, you need to go out and get fleeced by immoral landlords on your own.

I'm sure Kern County and most of the Central Valley would love that capitalistic approach. "Ah ain't havin' mah tax dollurs bein' spent on no libural en-dock-try-nation center."

[ripcord]

2. The problem is that California is facing a housing shortage

Prices in that area are insane and it causes homelessness among students.

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. Again, I doubt the rugged capitalistic farmers that get farm subsidies would care

That would be their solution.

[ArizonaLib]

5. Cops chase homeless from our state to others like CA, OR and WA

They (including families with small kids) get arrested for dumpster diving, garbage picking and seeking shade from dumpsters in 120 degree weather.

The courts want future students to have better opportunity? Require decreases in tuition or at the very least make full-time students tax exempt. Wasn't Reagan Governor of California one time? Didn't he do something? He was destructive.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

11. The housing shortage at Cal is nothing new

I commuted to class in from downtown Oakland back in the 80s.

This is about an ongoing power struggle between the City of Berkeley and the University.

[SunSeeker]

4. Some California colleges are letting students live in their cars in parking structures.

At least the college parking structures are safe and patrolled.

The cost of housing in CA is a crisis. Too many rich people want to live here and have horrifically inflated property values. Middle class families can't buy a house in major metropolitan areas here. Yet, that is where the jobs are. It's a cruel catch-22.

[Sherman A1]

6. Simple fix

Just make the 3050 seats online learning and draw them out of a hat as to who comes to the building and who does remote classes.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Ever try to do a Chem Lab remotely?

Physics? Biology? Learn how to draw blood remotely?

Etc.

Drawing names out of a hat would prevent those drawn from a full selection of courses their peers have access to.

[Sherman A1]

8. I guess that remote learning these

Last couple of years was just fake news.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Classes that couldn't be taught remotely

were cancelled - or exceptions made.

The university at which I teach taught remotely for 5 months, not 2 years. I've been back in the classroom since July 2020.

While many classes gave students the option of remote learning for the school year 2020-2021 or attending in person (hybrid teaching), starting in the fall of 2020 students in classes which could not be taught remotely did not have that option. They were require to be on campus.

Starting in the fall of 2021, classes were either entirely remote - or entirelly in person. Lab classes were not taught remotely.

So yes, remote learning for 2 years - especially as it pertains to lab classes - is fake news.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

10. The number I'm hearing is closer to 5,000