Editing University of California (section)

===Modern history===
[[File:UCMSciEng (cropped).JPG|thumb|right|[[UC Merced]], founded in 2005.]]
The Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 established that UC must admit undergraduates from the top 12.5% (one-eighth) of graduating high school seniors in California. Prior to the promulgation of the Master Plan, UC was to admit undergraduates from the top 15%. UC does not currently adhere to all tenets of the original Master Plan, such as the directives that no campus was to exceed total enrollment of 27,500 students (in order to ensure quality) and that public higher education should be [[College tuition in the United States|tuition-free]] for California residents. Five campuses, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego, each have current total enrollment at over 30,000, and of these five, all but Irvine have undergraduate enrollments over 30,000.<ref name=Enrollment>{{cite web |title=Fall Enrollment At A Glance |date=January 19, 2024 |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance |publisher=University of California |access-date=March 17, 2024 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506160714/https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance |url-status=live }}</ref>

After the state electorate severely limited long-term [[property tax]] revenue by enacting [[California Proposition 13 (1978)|Proposition 13]] in 1978, UC was forced to make up for the resulting collapse in state financial support by imposing a variety of fees which were tuition in all but name.<ref name="Lindsay">{{cite news |last1=Lindsay |first1=Leon |title=Will California's tuition-free colleges become history? |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1217/121742.html |access-date=August 29, 2016 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |publisher=The First Church of Christ, Scientist |date=December 17, 1982 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927010001/https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1217/121742.html |archive-date=September 27, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Lindsey">{{cite news |last1=Lindsey |first1=Robert |title=California Weighs End of Free College Education |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs-end-of-free-college-education.html |access-date=August 29, 2016 |work=The New York Times |date=December 28, 1982 |archive-date=August 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815151030/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs-end-of-free-college-education.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Gordon">{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Larry |title=California universities consider adopting the T-word: tuition |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-14-la-me-tuition-20100614-story.html |access-date=August 29, 2016 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417230527/https://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/14/local/la-me-tuition-20100614 |archive-date=April 17, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On November 18, 2010, the regents finally gave up on the longstanding [[legal fiction]] that UC does not charge tuition by renaming the Educational Fee to "Tuition".<ref>Regents of the University of California, [http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/3101.html Regents Policy 3101: The University of California Student Tuition and Fee Policy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523015848/http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/3101.html |date=May 23, 2016 }}, UC Office of the President (as approved on January 21, 1994, and with amendments through November 18, 2010).</ref> As part of its search for funds during the 2000s and 2010s, UC quietly began to admit higher percentages of highly accomplished (and more lucrative) students from other states and countries,<ref name="Warren">{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Jeffrey E. |title=UC, where are your native sons and daughters? |url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/UC-where-are-your-native-sons-and-daughters-2354592.php |work=SFGate |publisher=Hearst Communications |date=July 14, 2011 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=January 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123022137/https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/UC-where-are-your-native-sons-and-daughters-2354592.php |url-status=live }}</ref> but was forced to reverse course in 2015 in response to the inevitable public outcry and start admitting more California residents.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jordan |first1=Miriam |last2=Belkin |first2=Douglas |title=Foreign Students Pinch University of California Home-State Admissions |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-students-pinch-university-of-california-home-state-admissions-1447650060 |access-date=August 30, 2016 |work=The Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc. |date=November 16, 2015 |archive-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827214714/http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-students-pinch-university-of-california-home-state-admissions-1447650060 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Saul |first1=Stephanie |title=Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/public-colleges-chase-out-of-state-students-and-tuition.html |access-date=August 26, 2016 |work=The New York Times |date=July 7, 2016 |archive-date=August 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828053751/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/public-colleges-chase-out-of-state-students-and-tuition.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On November 14, 2022, about 48,000 academic workers at all ten UC campuses, as well as the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], went on [[2022 University of California academic workers' strike|strike for higher pay and benefits]] as authorized by the [[United Auto Workers]] (UAW) union.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Toohey |first1=Grace |last2=Lin |first2=Summer |last3=San Román |first3=Gabriel |title=UC officials call for mediator as strike by 48,000 academic workers causes systemwide disruptions |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students |date=November 14, 2022 |access-date=November 23, 2022 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115000725/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/university-of-california-strike-academic-workers-graduate-students |url-status=live }}</ref> UAW alleged more than 20 [[unfair labor practice]] charges against UC, including unilateral changes in policy and obstructing worker negotiation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://ucsdguardian.org/2022/11/03/breaking-uaw-academic-union-workers-across-uc-campuses-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-strike/ |title=BREAKING: Thousands of UAW Academic Union Workers Across UC Campuses Vote to Authorize Strike |first=Niloufar |last=Shahbandi |website=[[UCSD Guardian|The Guardian]] |publisher=University of California, San Diego |date=November 3, 2022 |access-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115002141/https://ucsdguardian.org/2022/11/03/breaking-uaw-academic-union-workers-across-uc-campuses-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-strike/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The strike lasted almost six weeks, officially ending on December 23.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hubler |first=Shawn |date=December 24, 2022 |title=University of California Academic Workers End Strike |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/us/university-california-workers-strike.html |access-date=January 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224030049/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/us/university-california-workers-strike.html |url-status=live }}</ref>