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Audit says California's biggest university so cash-hungry that it changed admissions standards
Business Insider ^ | 03/30/2016 | Abby Jackson

Posted on 03/30/2016 2:02:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The University of California System is frequently lauded as one of the best public-education systems in the world.

But a scathing new state audit of the system tells a story of manipulation of admissions standards for financial gain, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The audit claims that the university knowingly admitted out-of-state-applicants with lower qualifications in an effort to boost income from increased tuition.

"This report concludes that over the past several years, the university has undermined its commitment to resident students," the audit reads. "The university made substantial efforts to enroll nonresident students who pay significantly more tuition than residents."

In-state applicants pay $13,400 a year for tuition versus the $38,108 out-of-state applicants must pay.

The audit asserts that, from the 2010-11 school year through the 2014-15 school year, out-of-state enrollment increased a whopping 82%, while in-state enrollment decreased 1%.

It also claims that "the university admitted nearly 16,000 nonresidents whose scores fell below the median scores for admitted residents at the same campus on every academic test score and grade point average that we evaluated."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: admissions; affirmativeaction; amnesty; california; college; h1b; janetnapolitano; openborders; prop209; proposition209; racenorming; reparations; university
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University of California President, the "lovely" and "gracious" Janet Napolitano.
1 posted on 03/30/2016 2:02:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Universidad Azteca.
2 posted on 03/30/2016 2:04:23 PM PDT by OddLane
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The audit claims that the university knowingly admitted out-of-state-applicants with lower qualifications in an effort to boost income from increased tuition.

Out of state? Try out of the country.

3 posted on 03/30/2016 2:05:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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They should just charge $100,000 per year and let the taxpayers pick up the tab. Better yet, why not just charge $1,000,000 per year?

That is how shallow these college elitists are.


4 posted on 03/30/2016 2:07:59 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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RE: Out of state? Try out of the country.

Unless those from out of country pay tuition, how’s that going to boost their cash?


5 posted on 03/30/2016 2:08:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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might help if illegal aliens paid full freight out-of-state rates, instead of being given free-ride “scholarships”.


6 posted on 03/30/2016 2:10:58 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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but illegal aliens get in state tuition benefits


7 posted on 03/30/2016 2:10:58 PM PDT by doug from upland
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Foreign students pay full freight.


8 posted on 03/30/2016 2:12:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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"...ssshheeeeesh ahhhhchit...???..it must be her Odie Cologne..smell like flea powder"

9 posted on 03/30/2016 2:14:43 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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KEYWORDS: janetnapolitano; prop209; proposition209

10 posted on 03/30/2016 2:17:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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The comments on the article are funny. Some are saying that Prop 13, a conservative proposition that slows the rate of property taxes so people can afford to stay in their homes, is the problem. They are saying that property taxes should be much higher....HIGHER?? Our home in California sold for the same price we paid then in Arizona. 3,330 sq ft home vs 4,000 sq ft home; 8,000 sg ft land vs 2 1/2 acres land, and property taxes in AZ are HALF what they were in California. Liberals will squeeze the cash cow until it dies and then expect other states to bail them out. And a fair amount of the income taxes in CA subsidize the UC and CSU systems. California is a classic example of what the Libs are doing to the whole country. Is it any wonder that the majority of Americans want to get rid of ALL the politicians right now?


11 posted on 03/30/2016 2:17:55 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Universities teach a lot that is just not university level. Most of the so called “studies” courses, communications, a big portion of Liberal Arts as they are taught today should be covered elsewhere. Accounting, finance and economics are college level certainly along with the hard sciences and engineering are valid university level. Physical anthropology yes but cultural by itself I have questions about as do I on Sociology and non medical psychology. There are studies there but they are so distorted today as to being useless.

It would save a lot if only capable students were admitted to study serious disciplines.


12 posted on 03/30/2016 2:19:26 PM PDT by JimSEA
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The world needs ditchdiggers, too.


13 posted on 03/30/2016 2:20:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Lowering admission standards to raise cash is bad. Giving preference to someone from out of state because you can legally charge them more is bad. But consider that illegal aliens get lower standards through affirmative action, and then get taxpayer-subsidized tuition rates.

So whoever wrote this article is horrified that students from Wisconsin can pay full tuition to attend the U of California, but has no problem with illegal aliens getting in on taxpayer subsidies. Apparently, they think that the State of California is on a fiscal suicide mission.


14 posted on 03/30/2016 2:20:07 PM PDT by dangus
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I’m anold miner but I sure didn’t need college for that.


15 posted on 03/30/2016 2:25:45 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Fight On! for old SC
Our men fight on to victory
Our alma mater dear looks up to you
Fight On! and win for old SC
Fight On! to victory
Fight On!

16 posted on 03/30/2016 2:39:47 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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Unless those from out of country pay tuition, how’s that going to boost their cash?

Foreign students typically pay out-of-state tuition rates.

17 posted on 03/30/2016 2:42:25 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As a side note to this thread, please consider how the states can find state revenues to fund their schools.

Note that one of the very few federal “social spending programs” that the states have actually delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, to regulate, tax and spend for is the run the US Mail Service (1.8.7).

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

The problem is that the corrupt legislative and executive branches of the federal government have, for the longest time, been taxing and spending for things way outside the scope of the US Mail Service, spending taxpayer dollars for things that the states have never constitutionally authorized the feds to tax and spend for.

So if patriots were to get their low-information state lawmakers up to speed on the major constitutional problem that the corrupt feds are arguably stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes and put a stop to such thievery, then the states would probably find lots of “hidden” state revenues to pay for things like schools.

Remember in November !

So if patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they will also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president, and also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.

In fact, note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

18 posted on 03/30/2016 2:52:24 PM PDT by Amendment10
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manipulation of admissions standards for financial gain

Sure Sounds like a FELONY??


19 posted on 03/30/2016 3:18:11 PM PDT by eyeamok
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shoulda told-em it was for diversity
20 posted on 03/30/2016 3:43:41 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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