Cal State system to cut enrollment
California State University formally adopted a plan to reduce its 450,000 enrollment by 10,000 students because of state budget cutbacks.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has recommended a $66-million mid-year cut to the 23-campus system, the nation’s largest, which recently lost $31 million in state funding. The squeeze comes as applications have jumped to their highest levels, by 20% for first-time freshmen and 36% for transfer students compared with last year.
Each college must accept all qualified first-time freshmen and upper-division transfer students from their local areas but may raise the academic bar for potential students from other parts of California.
Application deadlines will be pushed up to Nov. 30 for the most popular campuses -- Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Channel Islands, Northridge and San Jose. San Francisco State’s deadline will be Dec. 10. The final cutoff for the whole system will be March 1.
-- Gale Holland
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