UC Berkeley was ordered by California’s Supreme Court to freeze its undergraduate enrollment at 2020-21 levels, meaning it will have to accept at least 3,000 fewer students than planned for the upcoming academic year.
In August, an Alameda County Superior Court sided with the Berkeley residents, ordering the university to cap enrollment at its 2020-21 level of just over 42,000 and to suspend construction of a proposed faculty housing and classroom project. The residents said the project, which would have created 150 faculty apartments, failed to plan for the increased noise, traffic and other quality-of-life problems the new buildings would bring.
The Berkeley residents say the university should build more housing on its campus and by not having sufficient on-campus housing, students are forced to find low-income alternatives around the city that displace low-income city residents, fuel a problem with homelessness and strain city resources. An appeals court last month denied UC’s request to lift the enrollment freeze as the case continues. The decision prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to file a friend of the court brief asking the California Supreme Court to block the enrollment cap, saying in a statement that a lawsuit should not “get in the way of the education and dreams of thousands of students who are our future leaders and innovators.
Writing in dissent of Thursday's 4-2 decision, Associate Justice Goodwin Liu lamented that roughly 3,050 students could lose the opportunity to attend one of the top universities in the country because of “an environmental lawsuit." He urged the university to renew its request for a stay at the Court of Appeals and urged the two sides to engage in negotiations or mediation to solve the dispute quickly.
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