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Newsom Lifts Freeze on UC Berkeley Enrollment

By Alice Sun

LOS ANGELES—California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this week overturned a recent Supreme Court ruling that would have required the University of California (UC)–Berkeley to deny admission to about 3,000 students after they had already received acceptance letters.

Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 118 into law on March 14—a bill that passed unanimously both in the Assembly and Senate—overturning a March 3 Supreme Court ruling to freeze enrollment for the upcoming fall term.

The state Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s August 2021 ruling in favor of a residents group called Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods to freeze UC Berkeley’s fall enrollment to the 2020–2021 level—reducing over 3,000 new students for the upcoming school year…

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