Thomas E. Elias: UC system is moving beyond the reach of more and more California students

By Thomas Elias

The question of who the University of California will be serving when it reaches the third decade of this century remains one that the elite system’s administrators refuse to confront year after year.

Will UC and its 10 campuses belong primarily to the California students they were built to serve? Or will they become the de facto property of wealthy out-of-state and foreign parents and governments eager to send their children to what has ranked for 75 years as the world’s leading public university system?

One thing for sure is that UC today is more dependent than ever on the $24,700 each out-of-state student pays in tuition and fees above what state residents pay. Another thing for certain is that California high school graduates have become less and less welcome over the last 15 years as the state’s politicians reduced the flow of tax money to the university.

To maintain academic standards and retain most of the faculty, UC needs big money. Hence the impulse to replace California tax dollars with out-of-state and foreign student tuition and fees.

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[Source]: Oroville Mercury-Register