University of California Declines San Francisco’s Offer to Open a Campus Downtown

Officials at the University of California (UC) have turned down an invitation by the city of San Francisco to build a new campus downtown, citing a drop in state funding. “Given the outlook for state appropriations and the financial capacity of our campuses, the university is not considering establishing any new campuses or other facilities in the city of San Francisco at this time,” UC spokesman Ryan King told The Epoch Times in an email Monday. In July 2023, Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu wrote a letter to the University of California, inviting the system’s officials to discuss establishing a new San Francisco campus in the city’s struggling downtown corridor....