CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : LOS ANGELES : UC Wins Victory for New Campuses

The University of California’s plan to build new campuses won a victory with the insertion of two words into a state study on higher education. A draft report had said that UC should build only one of three additional campuses sought, but the final version calls for “at least” one more campus. The study adopted by the California Postsecondary Education Commission is designed to help the Legislature decide on funding $2 billion worth of expansion plans proposed by UC, the Cal State system and community colleges. As in the draft released last month, the final study says that much enrollment pressure on UC can be handled by tripling the size of UC Riverside and by encouraging more students to attend independent institutions with larger state-financed scholarships. But the report now accepts that more than one additional UC campus may be needed, even with those steps.