VOA慢速英語：加州大學投票支持限制州外學生

University of California Votes Limits on Non-State Students

加州大學投票支持限制州外學生

State universities in California are planning to limit admission of undergraduate students from other states and from overseas.

加州的州立大學計劃限制招收來自美國其它州和海外國家的本科生。

The decision follows release of a report by the state's auditor, Elaine Howle. She found qualified California residents were being denied admission to California state universities because of the acceptance of many non-state residents.

該決定是在該州審計員伊萊恩·豪爾(Elaine Howle)發(fā)布一份報告之后。她發(fā)現(xiàn)加州符合資格的居民被加州的州立大學拒絕錄取，原因就是這些學校招收了很多州外居民。

Under the new policy, enrollment of non-California residents will be limited to 18 percent at five University of California campuses. Those campuses are: Santa Barbara, Davis, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced.

根據(jù)這項新的政策，州外居民在加州大學5個校區(qū)的錄取率將被限制到18%。這些校區(qū)包括圣巴巴拉、戴維斯、圣克魯斯、河濱和默塞德校區(qū)。

At the four other campuses, in Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, Irvin and San Diego, the percentage of non-state residents is already above 18 percent. Those schools will not be permitted to go above their percentage of non-state residents admitted for the 2017-2018 school year.

在加州大學的洛杉磯、伯克利、埃爾文和圣地亞哥這4個校區(qū)，州外居民的錄取率已經(jīng)超過了18%。這些校區(qū)不得超過他們在2017-2018學年錄取州外居民的比例。

The policy will take effect at the start of the 2018-2019 school year.

這項政策將于2018-2019學年開始生效。

Emotional Debate at Board Meeting

學校理事會的激烈辯論

There was emotional debate at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting as a majority of members voted to limit out-of-state residents.

周四的大學理事會會議中發(fā)生了激烈的辯論，絕大多數(shù)成員投票支持限制州外居民。

Board member Hadi Makarechian was once an international student. He moved to California from Iran in the 1960s.

理事會成員哈迪·馬凱臣(Hadi Makarechian)曾經(jīng)是一名國際學生。他于上世紀六十年代從伊朗搬到了加州。

Makarechian told the board he fears the new limits will lead gifted international students to look elsewhere for college.

馬凱臣對理事會表示，他擔心新限制將會導致有天賦的國際學生轉(zhuǎn)投其它大學。

"I know the ‘in thing' today is to build walls, but we are building a wall around the University of California by doing this," he said.

他說，“我知道如今流行的就是造墻(暗指川普要在美墨邊境造墻)，但是我們這樣做是在給加州大學造一堵墻。”

But University of California President Janet Napolitano said the new limit on out-of-state residents is a "balanced" decision.

但是加州大學校長珍妮特·納波利塔諾(Janet Napolitano)表示，這項對州外居民的限制是一項“平衡”的決策。

Napolitano said the policy supports "our pledge that non-resident students will be enrolled only in addition to, and never in place of, Californians." But it still provides opportunities for students from around the world, she said.

納波利塔諾表示，這項政策維持了我們的承諾，那就是州外學生的錄取只能是一個補充，而不能替代加州人的位置。但是她說，這仍然為世界各地的學校提供了機會。

The state university system in California is one of the largest in the world. It serves about 210,000 undergraduate students. About 16.5 percent of them are from outside California.

加州的州立大學系統(tǒng)是全球最大的大學系統(tǒng)之一。它招收了大約21萬本科生，其中大約16.5%的學生來自加州以外。

About 10.9 percent of non-California undergraduates are international students. They come from about 100 countries.

大約10.9%的州外本科生是國際學生，他們來自于大約100個國家。

There are financial reasons for the acceptance of so many non-state residents. California state universities receive about $61,000 a year from non-state residents, compared to about $34,000 per student for in-state students. That is a difference of about $27,000.

招收這么多州外學生有一些經(jīng)濟原因。加州的州立大學每年收取州外居民大約6.1萬美元，相比之下只收取州內(nèi)學生大約3.4萬美元。兩者相差2.7萬美元。

In March, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block told the board that extra tuition from non-state residents helped his university avoid cuts and add some courses, even as state education spending dropped.

今年三月份，加州大學洛杉磯分校校長吉恩·布洛克(Gene Block)對理事會表示，來自州外居民的額外學費幫助該校避免了削減開支并增加了一些課程，即使該州的教育支出有所下降。

But, as the Regents met last week, its members were mindful of another issue. The California state government had been holding up $18.5 million in aid to the state's universities until the board moved to reduce non-state admissions.

但是，隨著理事會上月會面，其成員也注意到了另一個問題。加州政府已經(jīng)凍結(jié)了提供給該州州立大學的1850萬美元的援助，直到理事會開始降低州外學生的入學率為止。

Assemblyman Kevin McCarty had led the move to hold up the financing. He said lawmakers have been hearing from parents who say their children were being denied admission to state universities in favor of out-of-state students with "lower academic scores."

加州的州眾議員凱文·麥凱迪(Kevin McCarty)領(lǐng)導了凍結(jié)融資的這一舉措。他說，議員們一直聽到父母們抱怨他們的孩子被州立大學拒絕錄取，以便錄取學分更低的州外學生。

Competition for admission at California universities is intense.

加州大學的入學競爭非常激烈。

UCLA received 102,000 applications for the 2017 freshman class, the school reported. It is the first time that over 100,000 students asked to be admitted.

該校報告稱，加州大學洛杉磯分校2017年新生班收到了10.2萬份申請，這是首次有超過10萬名學生申請入學。

Last year, UCLA accepted about 17,500 for its 2016 freshman class, the school reported. Of that number, 10,406 were state residents, 4,614 were out-of-state residents and 2,454 were from outside the United States, the school reported.

該校報告稱，去年加州大學洛杉磯分校2016年新生班錄取了大約1.75萬名學生。其中10406名學生是州內(nèi)居民，4614名學生是州外居民，2454名學生來自海外。

Of the 17,500 accepted, 6,546 were enrolled at the Los Angeles university. About 25 percent were from outside California.

在這1.75萬名被錄取的學生中，有6546名學生進入了洛杉磯大學，其中25%來自于州外。

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