Ail good ideas, but easiest, with immediate results, is to require UCSB to limit admission to those applicants who score above average in SATs in English, Mathematics, and one traditional science. And require that remedial courses be taught exclusively at community colleges.
Enrollment would drop 50 percent, and with it, 30-40 percent of non-teaching jobs. Several thousand rentals and hundreds of homes would become
Available and millions of dollars saved.
And the faculty could focus on students ready to learn.
An illuminating and logical set of suggestions. But its effectiveness could only be tested if all readers of Santa Barbara Current were to send a copy to the County Commissioners with a personal note of support for the recommendations made.
As always smart, honest, experienced ppl can identify the problem with excellent plans to solve it. And, until the globalist puppets are removed from control this socialist nightmare will continue. At best, what we have now is an opportunity to vote better ppl in. Sadly, until the elections are fair and free from fraud (starting with the propaganda fed to voters through lame stream media) we will all suffer. Praying for a major shift in this war towards a healthy republic.
If Santa Barbara County is reconsidering land-use restrictions to accommodate thousands of acres of new energy development like solar farms, should they show comparable flexibility toward affordable housing and make it a higher priority? Watching the new Buellton Garden Apartments at 10 McMurray Rd, Buellton, California. The development was created to increase affordable housing in the Santa Ynez Valley and consists of 89 residential units, with most reserved for households meeting low- and very-low-income eligibility requirements. Did not see that many cars in the parking lot or active residents in the building. One bedroom apartment is going for $1500/month which is under market when compared to Avenue Heights Apartments in Buellton, that advertise $2200/month for same. Is Buellton Garden rejecting most applicants given the low occupancy or is this housing still unaffordable to those seeking a place to live in the SYV?
Ail good ideas, but easiest, with immediate results, is to require UCSB to limit admission to those applicants who score above average in SATs in English, Mathematics, and one traditional science. And require that remedial courses be taught exclusively at community colleges.
Enrollment would drop 50 percent, and with it, 30-40 percent of non-teaching jobs. Several thousand rentals and hundreds of homes would become
Available and millions of dollars saved.
And the faculty could focus on students ready to learn.
W Naylor
I believe pigs will fly before UCSB imposes any meaningful academic standard for admission.
An illuminating and logical set of suggestions. But its effectiveness could only be tested if all readers of Santa Barbara Current were to send a copy to the County Commissioners with a personal note of support for the recommendations made.
As always smart, honest, experienced ppl can identify the problem with excellent plans to solve it. And, until the globalist puppets are removed from control this socialist nightmare will continue. At best, what we have now is an opportunity to vote better ppl in. Sadly, until the elections are fair and free from fraud (starting with the propaganda fed to voters through lame stream media) we will all suffer. Praying for a major shift in this war towards a healthy republic.
If Santa Barbara County is reconsidering land-use restrictions to accommodate thousands of acres of new energy development like solar farms, should they show comparable flexibility toward affordable housing and make it a higher priority? Watching the new Buellton Garden Apartments at 10 McMurray Rd, Buellton, California. The development was created to increase affordable housing in the Santa Ynez Valley and consists of 89 residential units, with most reserved for households meeting low- and very-low-income eligibility requirements. Did not see that many cars in the parking lot or active residents in the building. One bedroom apartment is going for $1500/month which is under market when compared to Avenue Heights Apartments in Buellton, that advertise $2200/month for same. Is Buellton Garden rejecting most applicants given the low occupancy or is this housing still unaffordable to those seeking a place to live in the SYV?