<p>I know a student at SFSU that was not going to graduate in four years, because of dropped class offerings in her major. Now the school is adjusting the requirements for her major and allowing elective credits to take the place of the dropped classes. So the schools are not just dropping classes to increase the years a student is attending and thus increase revenue.</p>
<p>However, the community colleges in CA, which are dirt cheap to attend, are going to be hit the hardest. The combination of budget cuts and the increase in attendance due to the poor economy are going to make the community colleges a frustrating place to attend.</p>
<p>Also, remember that many students go into a four year school with enough credits to qualify them as a sophomore. They should have no trouble getting out in four years.</p>
<p>This is pretty much true. I’m in LACCD right now and the first day of every class could have gotten a citation by the fire department. However just like any other semester in community college. People go who can’t handle the work for whatever reason and half at least a quarter of the people who got into all my classes have dropped. Even more in my philosophy classes. One of the classes I need for my major isn’t offered at all this semester, hopefully it will pop up in spring.</p>
<p>The teachers have told me that they expect it to get worse in spring too. In a way I’m lucky it’s my third year there and I have a priority registration date. The classes with good teachers will probably be closed the second they open. All I can hope is that this slows down my competition for fall 2010 applications as much as it might me.</p>
<p>Calcruizer, I did not misrepresent anything, my exact words were “UCLA is looking to charge an additional fee for some majors like business”, Anyway, the UC regents have put this on the cack shelf for awhile.</p>
<p>I have to wonder what type of scores the students that require remedial classes got on the ACT or SAT. </p>
<p>Since the nation seems to be against any state or national tests required for kids to graduate HS, it would be logical that they kids that couldn’t have passed this test wouldn’t be admitted to college. This is a money making scheme for the colleges and does a disservice to the kids that ARE up to college level courses.</p>
<p>The state of education (before college level) in this country is abysmal. Yes, we have lots of smart hard working students. But I think that the lazy slackers are a drag on the rest and in the bigger picture a drag on the future of the USA.</p>
<p>Not everyone needs to be able to be a rocket scientist, but if you graduate HS and can’t read, write and do basic math, there is a serious problem going on.</p>
<p>I just had a look at our son’s schedule and a few courses that he was interested in have been dropped from the Spring course schedule. The school will most likely be hit with budget cuts as state revenues continue to fall. I’ve identified three graduate courses that he could take as a contingency. It no longer appears that graduating in three years is possible. I will look for a few additional contingencies.</p>
<p>The Yale news on department cuts was a bit disturbing. At any rate, sign up early for courses and plan those contingencies as it can save time and money.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to note that Don Levine states in his recent book that UChicago has always thought that too much emphasis wad placed on graduating in 4 years. This was one of the reasons students can take either 3 or 4 courses a quarter (need to average 3 for 2 years and 4 for two years to gradute in 4 years), and that there is a graduation ceremony ever quarter including summer.</p>
<p>Its not only budged cuts that are the problem, in my opinion. Its frequin book prices. My books were so expensive that I seriously couldn’t afford more than 4 courses a semester. Now I’m done with school and 42K in debt, and thinking about law school. Nonetheless, no regrets. I’m extremely happy to have finished school and I’d rather pay this monster debt off, as opposed to work. lol.
btw, here’s a great site that helped me with books. I simply traded or bought books with fellow classmates on here. [Thomas</a> Trade](<a href=“http://www.thomastrade.com%5DThomas”>http://www.thomastrade.com)</p>