Are you feeling like your campus has gotten a little cramped lately? That’s probably because our current Sophomore and Junior classes are the largest in UCSC history. Yet, in the midst of massive budget reductions, how can the university be allowing in more students? According to William Ladusaw, Dean of Undergraduate Education, these massive classes were a problem before our budget was reduced, and, ironically, the cuts themselves may have helped draw more students into enrollment. Enrollment at the UC works like planning a party, Ladusaw explains, where you send out more invitations than you expect will arrive. In 2007 much more students enrolled than were expected, and in 2008, when the economy went into a recession, prospective freshmen were told that that the UC was cutting admissions. What resulted was a whiplash effect: more freshmen enrolled than in the previous year, and thus there is an”enrollment bulge” in our current Sophomore and Junior undergraduate classes.
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