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University
of California's newest campus, the 6,700-student UC Merced, where classrooms are
packed until late at night, clubs meet outdoors and students camp out on the library floor to
study.
The 10-year-old Central Valley school, set alongside grazing cows and grasslands near the
Sierra Nevada, has seen a sharp uptick in applications from students across the Golden State as
the UC system grows increasingly competitive. The 2020 Plan, as it's known, would build the
housing, classrooms and research laboratory space needed for the number of students already
on campus -- and allow it to grow to 10,000 students over the next five years.
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"The next phase of development is critical for our
campus," said Domonique Jones, Merced's
student body president, a senior from the East
Bay city of Hercules. "Just generally, we feel more
packed, more overcrowded. It's literally like a
growing pain."
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The sculpture known as Beginnings dominates the main
quad at UC Merced in Merced on April 8, 2015. The 10year-old Central Valley institution has been gaining
more applicants each year. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News
Group)
UC regents are expected to vote on the plan
during a public meeting at UC San Francisco's
Mission Bay campus Thursday and Friday, just as
they decide whether to add 10,000 more in-state
students to its nine undergraduate campuses over
the next three years.
The system's more established campuses, such as UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, have severe
space constraints and can't expand as easily, which is one reason Merced's growth is so
important, noted Dianne Klein, a spokeswoman for UC President Janet Napolitano.
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"We believe strongly in building up this campus
and making it the very best research university
that it can be," Klein said.
Each spring, the Merced campus becomes a
fallback option for thousands of top high school
seniors who are guaranteed UC admission
because they are in the top 9 percent of their
class but who have been rejected from every
campus to which they applied.
Last spring, that number was the largest-ever: 12,974.
Less than 2 percent of these students enroll at UC
Merced each year, however. And some say that by
giving those students only one option -- which very
few take -- the University of California is failing to
meet the spirit of its admissions guarantee.
Still, the number of high school seniors applying to
UC Merced rose by more than 15 percent last year,
the biggest increase in the UC system, and the
campus -- already crowded -- grew by about 6.5
percent in the fall, further straining housing,
parking lots and office spaces for faculty and
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The UC Merced campus rises out of empty grazing land
in Merced on April 8, 2015. The school hopes to
expand in a northern direction in the near future. (Gary
Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
graduate students.
"You go through all four floors of the library and there is no space, so you just take an area on
the floor," Jones said.
Teaching and researching at UC Merced means working "elbow-to-elbow" with your colleagues,
said Tom Hothem, associate director of the campus writing program. And while he doesn't
mind the close quarters, he said, Hothem is in the minority.
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UC regents have expressed support for the
expansion -- along with concerns about the debt
that UC would take on to finance it.
The project would be funded with $600 million in
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A tour group stops to admire the high-tech foyer filled
with solar panels at the Science and Engineering
building at UC Merced in Merced on April 7, 2015. The
10-year-old Central Valley institution has been gaining
more applicants each year. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News
Group)
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UC-issued bonds; $157 million in campus funds
generated from such sources as housing, dining
and parking; and $386 million in funds from the
developer, to be repaid when the building hits key
milestones -- "akin to a warranty," as Merced Vice
Chancellor Dan Feitelberg put it.
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I say "no" until we are assured the % of non-California kids admitted is in the single digits.
Don't want any more tax dollars spent on kids from out of state. Or he can kill the bullet
train and take the money from there.
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California resident students always get last pick when it comes to filling up seats at the
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How about we make sure that the tax paying children of California have first shot at a slot?
How about we make sure that tax paying residents have second shot at a slot?
And if we still need to expand, spending $1B or more, then let us vote on it.
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