The New York Times didn’t assign blame, @STEM2017. They quoted a nearby school board member after soliciting her opinion. She questioned UA’s priorities. The reader is left to agree or disagree with her line of reasoning.
They also quoted former student body president Elliot Spillers, “the first black student in 40 years to have held that position,” who clearly thought the changes in student body composition were net positive:
And only a small part of that article (“Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition”) was about UA. It’s a big topic of discussion across the country. That’s hardly some new revelation.