Former U.S. congressmember and state assemblymember Mel Levine and former state senator and assemblymember Dick Ackerman: 'We call on lawmakers and the courts to avoid a dramatic reduction in the number of UC Berkeley students enrolled for this fall.'
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By clicking subscribe, you agree to share your email address with CalMatters to receive marketing, updates, and other emails.As University of California, Berkeley, graduates, we can attest to the incredible opportunities Cal opened in our lives. We call on lawmakers and the courts to avoid a dramatic reduction in the number of students who will have these same opportunities next year.
The appellate court’s rejection of UC’s request for relief from a lower court order requiring the campus to freeze student enrollment at the same level as 2020-21 is unfair. It bases enrollment on an unusually low enrollment year because of the pandemic, and it will have an immediate and devastating impact on thousands of students who will be denied access to a UC education.
The lower court decision also, for the first time, treats enrollment as a “project” that must be analyzed under CEQA, a troubling departure from past practice that would significantly harm our attempts to increase the educated workforce needed to support our state’s economy.Want to submit a guest commentary or reaction to an article we wrote? You can find our
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