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Editorial: UC is at the tipping point with overcrowding. Don't let it become an education factory

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Kids sell spots in courses. A new dorm would be more like a windowless prison to pack in more students. Will the UC turn into a degree assembly line? writes The Times Editorial Board. (via latimesopinion)

have resorted to forking over the money for hotel rooms if they can afford it, or living out of their cars if they can’t. The ugliest solution to overcrowding so far is UC Santa Barbara’s decision to go along with a billionaire donor’s design monstrosity: a dormitory that would house 4,500 students, almost all of them in

Federal pandemic rescue funding means there’s enough money to educate students, for now at least — but there isn’t enough capacity. The campuses’ ability to build more dorms and classrooms — all of which would take considerable amounts of time — is finite. Other, less-appealing options: Satellite campuses. Off-campus dorms. More online courses that can handle many hundreds of students per class.

 

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