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UC system to receive $1M from state to support undocumented students
UC Berkeley Daily Californian ^ | September 13, 2017 | BY HARINI SHYAMSUNDAR

Posted on 09/13/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The University of California will receive $1 million in additional funding from the state to support its DREAM Loan Program for undocumented students.

According to the press release, the DREAM Loan Program helps many undocumented UC students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to finance their college education.

“Young Dreamers make exceptional contributions to UC and to the nation,” UCOP said in its Tuesday press release. “They embody the American Dream and represent the best of our country.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycal.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: border; illegalaliens; invasion; university

1 posted on 09/13/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should award them with Undocumented Degrees.


2 posted on 09/13/2017 8:55:39 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In the meantime, California kids (the hated DNA types) are being severely limited in going to the UC system.

UCLA admitted just 14.6 percent of California hopefuls this year, even as it became the first American public university to get more than 100,000 admission applications. Berkeley took just 19.7 percent, with out-of-staters eating up many slots that otherwise could go to Californians. As they previously have, UC officials predicted in-state enrollments would actually rise, noting they have longstanding analyses of how many admission offers are acted on by non-Californians.

Whose UC is it? — still a valid question

By THOMAS D. ELIAS | Orange County Register PUBLISHED: August 8, 2017 at 12:02 am | UPDATED: August 8, 2017 at 11:01 am

As a new school year approaches on the nine campuses of the University of California, it’s fair for parents of prospective students to ask once again, as many have for at least the last eight years, whose UC will it be?

The question first arose during the Great Recession that began about nine years ago, a time when UC began accepting more and more out-of-state and foreign students to help make up for funding cuts inflicted by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators.

Over 12 years, the foreign and out-of-state enrollment at UC — some of whose campuses are routinely listed among the top five public universities in America and the world — rose from 5 percent to more than 21 percent. University administrators were forced to concede the $26,000 in extra tuition paid by the children of Arab oil sheiks and Chinese multi-millionaires and government-subsidized students from myriad other places had a lot to do with their vastly increased numbers at UC.

Meanwhile, the proportion of highly eligible California high school graduates who actually went to UC was falling despite their supposedly being guaranteed a slot somewhere in the university.

About two years ago, administrators began feeling some heat over this, with state legislators threatening to cut the taxpayer contributions to UC coffers unless the trend stopped. So UC regents voted overwhelmingly in late 2015 for a plan to increase in-state enrollment by 5,000 students in each of the next two years, this fall being the plan’s second year.

This action, proposed by UC President Janet Napolitano, amounted to a tacit admission that the critics were correct.

Since then, there has been a bit of a shift toward higher enrollments of Californians at UC. The system announced as it sent out acceptance offers this spring it would have 2,500 more California undergraduates than it did two years ago. Not exactly the 10,000 promised by the university’s governing board back then, but progress nonetheless.

In fact, UC reported that admission offers to Californians declined this year by about 1,200 from last year, a drop of almost 2 percent. Meanwhile, a reported 31,030 non-Californians got admission offers, a jump of about 4 percent from last year.

Justifiable outcries began immediately. “UC officials are tone deaf and insensitive to Californians and the (state’s) master plan for higher education,” said state Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Roseville. “Californians subsidize UC so that their children may attend and learn to be competitive in this global economy. Instead, UC officials are admitting non-Californians to the detriment of California students.”

What Nielsen said is more true of the primo UC campuses like Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego and Irvine than it is of those at Riverside, Merced and Santa Cruz, which are in somewhat less demand by out-of-staters.

UCLA admitted just 14.6 percent of California hopefuls this year, even as it became the first American public university to get more than 100,000 admission applications. Berkeley took just 19.7 percent, with out-of-staters eating up many slots that otherwise could go to Californians. As they previously have, UC officials predicted in-state enrollments would actually rise, noting they have longstanding analyses of how many admission offers are acted on by non-Californians.

But there are new questions about the reliability of statements from Napolitano and her staff. A state audit, for example, showed the president’s office squirreled away about $175 million over the last few years in a slush fund, at the same time tuition rose by almost the same amount. That led to great mistrust, which many governors would have resolved by firing the perpetrators.

But, as usual with financial chicanery conducted by officials associated with Gov. Jerry Brown, no one was punished and business carried on, following pious pledges to clean up their act from Napolitano and other administrators.

All of which leads parents of prospective UC students to feel betrayed by and untrusting of a system originally created to serve people like their children. Thomas D. Elias is a writer in Southern California.

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/08/whose-uc-is-it-still-a-valid-question/

3 posted on 09/13/2017 8:59:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought they were just here doing jobs no one else wanted.

Money saved will be wired HOME to Mexico.


4 posted on 09/13/2017 9:00:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

How can the illegal alien dacacas “represent” a country they don’t belong to ???

How can they be more bestest than the people who do actually belong to that country ???

How can the illegal alien dacacas be said to make contributions when they really take from the country ???

Class discussion


5 posted on 09/13/2017 9:06:28 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Arrrrrrgggggh! And they will not receive one dime from us, and we tell them so, every time they call begging for a donation.


6 posted on 09/13/2017 9:18:51 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Westbrook; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ptsal; Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; ...

Remember Janet Napolitano is dispensing these dollars.

The Demoncrats have had Janet in a holding pattern for years waiting to add her to the Supreme Court.

She’s rotten to the core.


7 posted on 09/13/2017 9:19:35 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ptsal

Janet Napolitano is also responsible for the holocaust at the Davidian Church in Waco.

The thought of her on the Supreme Court gives me the creeps.


8 posted on 09/13/2017 9:25:18 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Westbrook

Janet Reno had her hand on the Branch Davidians.

Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder were part of the gun running scam, Fast and Furious.


9 posted on 09/13/2017 9:32:54 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Would I be an “undocumented student” if I decided tuition was too much and I just started attending classes for free and demanded a diploma after four years? Or would they send in security to toss me out for trespassing and threaten me with arrest if I came back? What if I lived in Nevada but just denied I had any documents and demanded the in-state tuition?


10 posted on 09/13/2017 10:25:56 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Huh? At the University of California, $1 million won’t even buy you a bucket of piss in the dining hall. Weird.


11 posted on 09/13/2017 10:27:33 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: KarlInOhio

>>What if I lived in Nevada but just denied I had any documents and demanded the in-state tuition?
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I often ask my husband what would happen if the “documented” managed slaves “undocument”-ed themselves.

Citizens who have no pension, savings, or well-paying job would do better to lose their documents!


12 posted on 09/13/2017 10:34:10 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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