<p>California's budget woes rearing ugly head again.....</p>
<p>Cal</a> State to close door on spring 2013 enrollment</p>
<p>I feel for those kids who thought they'd go to CC and then transfer to a UC.....</p>
<p>Wow just unbelievable…</p>
<p>I think the policy about transferring from a CC to a UC has been for Fall only for a awhile…</p>
<p>And this article is about CSUs, not UCs.</p>
<p>It’s great political theater, and a pressure tactic… During a radio interview this morning a Cal State muckety-muck essentially said, 'if the governor’s proposed tax increase does not pass…"</p>
<p>To be clear…</p>
<p>this proposal applies to SPRING enrollments</p>
<p>it is not closing enrollment for FALL</p>
<p>it is still possible to enroll as a freshman for fall</p>
<p>it is still possible to transfer from a CC to a CSU in the fall</p>
<p>The highest priority of the higher education system in California is to insure that the UCs retain their status as premier research universities so they have been largely sheltered from the cuts to higher education. The next highest priority is to provide post-secondary educational opportunities for high school graduates who can not go to four year universities which has required that community colleges be adequately funded. This has resulted in the brunt of the budget cuts falling on the CSU system. </p>
<p>Furthermore, unlike the UCs which receive a lot of outside funding in addition to more state funding, the CSUs are largely prohibited from doing research and therefore do not get private sector and federal government funding. This leaves CSU with little alternative other than reducing enrollment.</p>