The University of California grew tenfold in enrollment across seven decades

Evidence

To grasp the increase in provisioning a liberal arts education over the course of the second half of the twentieth century, consider just the University of California system. In 1940, there were only two campuses (Berkeley and Los Angeles), together enrolling fewer than twenty thousand students. By 1960, there were six campuses (Santa Barbara, Davis, Riverside, and San Francisco had been added) enrolling more than fifty thousand students. By 1980, with the addition of the Santa Cruz, Irvine, and San Diego campuses and expansion of the others, enrollment was one hundred and forty thousand. Today, ten campuses enroll more than two hundred and twenty thousand students. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 667

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Middle-income families are being squeezed out of the University of California — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 668