[ti:University of California, Berkeley Forced to Reduce Enrollment]
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[00:00.04]The University of California, Berkeley
[00:03.20]called the state's recent Supreme Court ruling
[00:06.60]"devastating news" for students who "have earned a seat"
[00:10.32]in the class for the upcoming school year.
[00:14.40]The state's highest court chose not to look at a case
[00:19.56]first decided in the summer of 2021.
[00:23.56]That is when a lower court said the university must
[00:28.16]limit the number of students on its campus
[00:31.56]to about 42,000 for the 2022-2023 school year.
[00:39.48]Right now, about 45,000 students are at UC Berkeley.
[00:47.08]UC Berkeley is one of the top public universities in the United States.
[00:52.80]The school said it received over 128,000 applications
[00:58.84]for the upcoming freshman class.
[01:02.44]In order to meet the lower number, the university said
[01:06.64]it would bring in more students who live in California.
[01:10.28]As a result, international students and
[01:13.96]those from other American states would get fewer seats.
[01:20.48]In addition, the university said it would ask some students
[01:24.88]to take classes from home early in the school year
[01:28.92]before coming to campus in 2023.
[01:33.44]Others will have to wait one year to start their college education
[01:38.28]if they still want to come to Berkeley.
[01:42.04]The university is also asking students to consider
[01:46.08]off-campus study programs in Sacramento,
[01:50.84]the state's capital, or Washington, D.C.
[01:56.00]The legal case was brought by a group of people
[01:58.60]who live in the city of Berkeley.
[02:01.68]They formed an organization called
[02:03.68]Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods, or SBN.
[02:08.60]The group said the university had not been truthful
[02:12.40]about the number of students it meant to accept each year.
[02:17.04]It also said the school did not consider
[02:20.36]how its increasing enrollment
[02:22.88]would affect the surrounding neighborhoods.
[02:27.16]UC Berkeley — like several California schools
[02:30.84]— does not have enough housing for its increasing enrollment.
[02:35.72]SBN said the university planned in 2005
[02:40.76]to increase the number of students on campus
[02:43.84]by only 1,650 over 15 years.
[02:50.76]However, as of 2018, the number of students increased
[02:55.20]by over 8,000 without enough new housing.
[03:00.44]The larger amount of students, SBN said,
[03:03.88]caused an increase in noise and waste.
[03:08.68]Because they could not live at school,
[03:11.24]they moved into the neighborhoods around the school,
[03:14.36]causing higher housing costs.
[03:18.20]As a result, SBN asked the local court
[03:22.44]to restrict the school's enrollment.
[03:25.72]The situation in Berkeley is similar to other disputes
[03:30.08]between large California universities and their cities.
[03:33.92]The cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara
[03:39.08]are also dealing with increasing numbers of students
[03:44.20]and universities that do not have enough housing.
[03:48.96]In recent years, California state leaders have been working
[03:52.68]to help more students get into college.
[03:56.52]In 2021, they added $47 billion in education-related spending
[04:04.84]to increase the number of students going to public colleges.
[04:10.24]Groups like SBN say the state
[04:14.12]has not required universities to build more housing
[04:18.64]while it has been pushing them to accept more students.
[04:24.76]On the other side, universities like UC Berkeley
[04:29.04]say environmental restrictions in California
[04:32.84]make it difficult for them to build new housing for students.
[04:38.92]Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods argued that UC Berkeley's
[04:43.84]failure to limit the number of students
[04:46.80]violates a state environmental law put in place in 1970.
[04:53.44]And the school said lengthy environmental reviews for new buildings
[05:00.00]have limited its attempts to build more housing for students.
[05:05.64]State lawmaker Scott Wiener said he would find a way
[05:10.12]to permit colleges to build student housing more easily.
[05:16.48]When the California Supreme Court
[05:18.80]said it would not review the lower court's decision,
[05:22.44]SBN offered to work with UC Berkeley
[05:25.96]to permit 1,000 more students for the upcoming school year
[05:30.52]if most of them were from California.
[05:34.16]The university declined the offer.
[05:37.28]A spokesperson told the local newspaper
[05:40.52]that decisions on the number of students
[05:43.28]are made by elected officials and school leaders
[05:47.36]and not by a "small group."
[05:50.16]The university also plans to appeal the decision later this year.
[05:55.56]Jesse Livezey recently completed his advanced studies
[05:59.72]in physics at UC Berkeley.
[06:02.04]He said he does not believe there is a serious conflict
[06:06.00]between the university and the city.
[06:08.56]Everyone is concerned about the high cost of housing in northern California.
[06:15.04]"It's a big problem in the Bay Area that goes way beyond UC Berkeley.
[06:18.92]I don't feel like we've hit some breaking point, or something is now unsustainable."
[06:26.04]Livezey said that rejecting qualified students
[06:29.44]is not a way to solve the housing problem.
[06:33.12]"I would love for those students to be able to come to Berkeley
[06:37.00]and I think that's what should happen," Livezey said.
[06:41.32]I'm Jill Robbins.
[06:43.28]And I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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