Posted on 09/09/2017 10:02:47 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
The bullying of Conservatives has become trendy, with Big Media leading the charge. The Democrats in Dem 'leadership' are disgusting with their support of the Leftist groups that cause violence and bodily injury and encourage the support of 'youths' to join in on Social Media.
Dreamer kids not responsible for Mexican parental crimes
but
honky kids deeply responsible for smallpox smallpox blankets 300 years ago.
And
recent arrival honky kids deeply responsible for shackles *not* worn by wealthy recent arrival blacks.
??????
Agree. And I wish all kids were stronger, but in the CU-Boulder cesspool, he may have been adrift. I pray that whatever happened, that the Bollings are able lean on their faith and soldier on. What a devastating event. Prayers for them.
Worshiping a culture and nation that didn’t afford them opportunity is illogical.
Simultaneously hating on this nation while demanding to stay is illogical and counter-productive because it makes them look like invaders. Like the Muslim migrants who show up, demand welfare, then demand that everyone else accommodate their culture and faith instead of learning from the society that is obviously better than theirs because it is where they ran TO.
On a level playing field, conservative children win!
Every time.
Thanks for the ping.
No, let the out of state students pay even higher rates and lower the % out of state students to 10% or below, to allow in state students to attend.
The following oped describes how California students and their parents are getting shafted re admittance to the UC systems so illegals, out of staters and Opecker kids can get into 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/
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