[ti:University of California Votes Limits on Non-State Students] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:01.84]State universities in California are planning to limit admission [00:07.56]of undergraduate students from other states and from overseas. [00:13.56]The decision follows release of a report by the state's auditor, Elaine Howle. [00:22.24]She found qualified California residents [00:25.64]were being denied admission to California state universities [00:30.52]because of the acceptance of many non-state residents. [00:36.00]Under the new policy, enrollment of non-California residents [00:41.60]will be limited to 18 percent at five University of California campuses. [00:49.48]Those campuses are: Santa Barbara, Davis, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced. [00:58.70]At the four other campuses, in Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, Irvin and San Diego, [01:06.68]the percentage of non-state residents is already above 18 percent. [01:13.08]Those schools will not be permitted to go above their percentage [01:18.12]of non-state residents admitted for the 2017-2018 school year. [01:25.61]The policy will take effect at the start of the 2018-2019 school year. [01:34.27]There was emotional debate at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting [01:40.80]as a majority of members voted to limit out-of-state residents. [01:48.76]Board member Hadi Makarechian was once an international student. [01:56.64]He moved to California from Iran in the 1960s. [02:03.64]Makarechian told the board he fears the new limits [02:09.00]will lead gifted international students to look elsewhere for college. [02:16.26]"I know the 'in thing' today is to build walls, [02:21.48]but we are building a wall around the University of California by doing this," he said. [02:29.72]But University of California President Janet Napolitano [02:37.20]said the new limit on out-of-state residents is a "balanced" decision. [02:43.52]Napolitano said the policy supports "our pledge [02:49.84]that non-resident students will be enrolled only in addition to, [02:56.08]and never in place of, Californians." [03:01.12]But it still provides opportunities for students from around the world, she said. [03:09.42]The state university system in California is one of the largest in the world. [03:16.20]It serves about 210,000 undergraduate students. [03:22.68]About 16.5 percent of them are from outside California. [03:28.96]About 10.9 percent of non-California undergraduates are international students. [03:36.68]They come from about 100 countries. [03:41.20]There are financial reasons for the acceptance of so many non-state residents. [03:48.52]California state universities receive about $61,000 a year from non-state residents, [03:56.96]compared to about $34,000 per student for in-state students. [04:03.32]That is a difference of about $27,000. [04:08.84]In March, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block told the board that extra tuition from non-state residents [04:19.56]helped his university avoid cuts and add some courses, [04:25.56]even as state education spending dropped. [04:30.20]But, as the Regents met last week, its members were mindful of another issue. [04:40.00]The California state government had been holding up $18.5 million in aid to the state's universities [04:51.88]until the board moved to reduce non-state admissions. [04:58.12]Assemblyman Kevin McCarty had led the move to hold up the financing. [05:05.76]He said lawmakers have been hearing from parents who say their children [05:13.16]were being denied admission to state universities [05:17.68]in favor of out-of-state students with "lower academic scores." [05:24.40]Competition for admission at California universities is intense. [05:30.44]UCLA received 102,000 applications for the 2017 freshman class, the school reported. [05:40.68]It is the first time that over 100,000 students asked to be admitted. [05:46.92]Last year, UCLA accepted about 17,500 for its 2016 freshman class, the school reported. [05:57.64]Of that number, 10,406 were state residents, [06:02.72]4,614 were out-of-state residents and 2,454 [06:09.81]were from outside the United States, the school reported. [06:14.04]Of the 17,500 accepted, 6,546 were enrolled at the Los Angeles university. [06:24.12]About 25 percent were from outside California. [06:29.40]I'm Bruce Alpert. [06:32.32]And I'm Alice Bryant. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM