Newsom Lifts Freeze on UC Berkeley Enrollment

Students walk through Sproul Plaza on the University of California–Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif., on April 23, 2012. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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.