UC System: unwelcoming?

rcefn
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:25:42 +0000

I remember when I was living in California a number of years ago, there was a revolt by many California parents whose children could not get into the more selective UC’s–and at that time, it was decided that there would be less and less students admitted from other states. After living in various other states, and seeing tuition costs rise, as well as vast improvemnts in state collage academics (honors colleges, etc), I believe that we will begin to see this happening in other places also, and schools will be pressured into taking more in-state students. I read an interesting article about Miami of Ohio University, which came up with a novel approach to this dilemma. It accepts its entire freshman class without regards to state residence, and then gives resident scholarships to in-state students, thus lowering their tuition. Taxpayer money is used to subsidize these scholarships, and therefore, state residents don’t feel as if they’re paying taxes for non-state kids to attend their schools. The article said that this gives the university much more control over who is accepted, and it said that more and more schools might try this approach.