<p>If your brother can’t get into the college, he’ll have to work out a “Plan B” … and he’s not alone. I hear these kind of stories almost daily now. The one I heard yesterday was about a student at San Jose State University who was told that she would not be allowed to get into the teacher certification program… they had cut the numbers from about 150 to about 94. Her only option is to wait a full year to hook back into the program next fall. No word yet if she will be able to get into a different CSU’s certification program for this fall, but I’m guessing not.</p>
<p>I also know at SJSU that 3rd year German classes were canceled because the class sizes were too small. I don’t know the personal stories, but the obvious fallout is upcoming or half-way through German major or minor student is now out of luck because the required class (which is a full year series) is gone this year.</p>
<p>A lot of students are going to find their progress/graduation/transfer/certification plans delayed by a year or more by the cuts in the CSU/UC systems. Minor discrepancies for transfer students that in the past could be waived will not be so easy to have overlooked now. And even once at the college, class offerings are being seriously cut back to the point of effectively eliminating certain majors/minors and certifications.</p>