Your statement is not entirely correct, Mick. The UC system, under a state law that's been around since the early 2000s, considers illegal/undocumented (depending on your political slant--I'm neutral) immigrant students who have graduated from California high schools--and met a few other requirements--to be California residents. So they are considered in-state students for the purpose of admissions, tuition and fees.
It's important to note that the new policy re: out-of-state and international students applies to undergraduates only, which your news link omits.
I'm not making a political statement or saying whether the practice of treating non-citizen residents as CA residents for the purpose of UC admissions and tuition is right or wrong. I'm just trying to make sure that folks understand what we are dealing with.
But this topic might be teetering toward forbidden territory...
It's important to note that the new policy re: out-of-state and international students applies to undergraduates only, which your news link omits.
I'm not making a political statement or saying whether the practice of treating non-citizen residents as CA residents for the purpose of UC admissions and tuition is right or wrong. I'm just trying to make sure that folks understand what we are dealing with.
But this topic might be teetering toward forbidden territory...
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)