California Universities Will Cut Enrollment Unless State Increases Money By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: November 18, 2008
Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year, unless state lawmakers provide more money.
“We can’t continue to admit more and more students without receiving adequate funding,” Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Monday.
It would be the first time in its history that the university system turned away students who met admissions standards, and the announcement was greeted with disappointment and anger.
“We have put the education system on a starvation diet, and each and every year it becomes weaker,” said Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, a trustee of the university, who joined 150 people on Tuesday in Long Beach to protest the state budget cuts.
“Students now take five years to graduate,” Mr. Garamendi added. “Professors we need we cannot hire, the men and women we need to keep our institutions going, keep the heat on, keep the air-conditioning going, keep the toilets flushing, cannot be hired. You cannot have the best education system in the world on the cheap.” .......(more)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/education/19college.html