Friday, September 23, 2005
That's a great idea!
Boaltie Takeshi Akiba thinks that UC international admission policies promote injustice throughout the world.
A good example is Boalt Hall School of Law. Each year, the school admits about 50 students into its LLM program, a master's degree equivalent of professional law education. Several Japanese are among them each year, and the composition is nearly the same each time. They are young government officials who are headed for the highest government positions under the centralized Japanese bureaucracy and corporate lawyers who work for the most lucrative multinational law firms in Japan.
The writer of this letter has a Japanese name, and was admitted as an international student, so I'll go out on a limb here and assume it's written by a Japanese law student. Is Takeshi Akiba one of these select few who have the opportunity? Or is this the special exception which exists to criticize "Well, sure, not me, but everyone else..."
Professional schools at UC could mitigate the global consequences of its admissions policy by several means. It may establish different levels of tuition depending on whether a person is being sent with government or corporate support or whether the person has to pay out-of-pocket.
So, while American students don't get tuition discounts, students from other countries should get them. It's bad enough that illegal immigrants can get them. Do we really need to spit in the eye of out-of-state students some more?
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