UCSB needs to do better! Support the Santa Barbara Independent through a long-term or a single contribution. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. Username or Email Address. Last year, UCSB extended admissions offers to 97 percent of its waitlisted students, numbering over 6, For reference, in , UCSB offered admissions to 10 percent of its waitlisted students, numbering just These kinds of tactics were not uncommon among universities during the pandemic — with students withdrawing or deferring enrollment, they had to line the pocketbooks of their regents somehow, right?
Those students admitted off the waitlist are, undoubtedly, enormously talented and deserving of a spot at any top university. But the fact remains that to admit so many new students without any plan at all to house them, in an area already on the precipice of a housing crisis, actively harms their education and well-being as well as the surrounding community.
Want proof? Such is the state of things at the sixth-ranked public university in the country. But the worst part of this crisis is the way it will exacerbate the struggles of those Black, brown, and queer students to whom UCSB is so quick to affirm their commitment. But it is, sadly, indicative of a university and university system that practices very little of what they preach — that constantly restate their commitment to diversity and inclusion yet approve tuition rate hike after tuition rate hike , that publicly affirm their support for racial justice and then increase the budget for the UC police.
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