What does the recent decline in state revenues imply for future campus growth?
Over the past three years, while UC systemwide enrollment has grown by 18 percent, state budget support has declined by 14 percent. This is an enormous challenge for every UC campus including Berkeley. The near-term prospects for higher education funding in California are uncertain, but it is important to remember the 2020 LRDP is a framework for a period of 15 years, and only a few short years ago the state economy, and the state budget, were very robust. We can not predict the pace at which the new investments described in the 2020 LRDP will occur, but we are convinced they are critical to the future of the campus.
