Various proposals have been submitted to try to compensate for the admission policy changes. The UC faces increasing numbers of eligible high school graduates, yet at the same time discretionary state funding is dwindling. In 1994, the University passed the Long Term Affordability Model which institutionalized the high fee, high aid theory.
Administrators believe rising fees are acceptable with an increase in financial aid.
Concerns stem from the middle class who cannot afford increases and do not receive financial aid. While access to education has been drastically declining, the state of California has passed a number of laws and initiatives which support increasing incarceration. Institutionalized racism has created a cycle of imprisonment which seems indestructible. The University provides a plethora of services to the state of California from education to research to community medical centers. The merger of UCSF and Stanford Medical Center and the threatened changes at UCSD and UCIUs medical centers exemplifies the issue of public health care versus private care in California.