<p>California’s college cuts
Published Friday, Nov. 28, 2008</p>
<p>COMMUNITY COLLEGES</p>
<p>• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting $332.2 million from the budget of California’s community colleges.</p>
<p>• The Legislative Analyst’s Office has recommended that community college tuition be increased from $20 per unit to $26 per unit in January and $30 next school year.</p>
<p>• Community College League of California estimates the cuts and fee increases would mean a loss of 262,000 students.</p>
<p>• Los Rios Community College District Chancellor Brice Harris said he’ll have to turn away 11,000 students if proposed budget cuts and fee increases take place.</p>
<p>CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY</p>
<p>• CSU faces a $66.3 million midyear budget cut.</p>
<p>• For the first time in its history, CSU plans to eliminate 10,000 admission spots for the 2009-10 school year by moving up application deadlines and raising academic standards for incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>• Impacted campuses – those that are over-enrolled – can use supplemental admissions criteria to admit students or put students on wait lists. The eligibility index – a combination of grade point average and ACT or SAT scores – can be raised to limit enrollment.</p>
<p>• Admission priority will be given to continuing undergraduate students, then community college transfer students and California residents applying as freshmen or sophomores at impacted campuses. Nonresidents will have the lowest priority.</p>
<p>• Impacted campuses including Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Channel Islands, Northridge and San Jose State will stop accepting application for freshmen on Sunday. San Francisco State will stop on Dec. 10. Chico and San Marcos will review freshmen applications after Nov. 30 on a “space-available” basis.</p>
<p>• All campuses, including Sacramento State, will close admissions for first-time freshmen by March 1 – or before, depending on available space.</p>
<p>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA</p>
<p>• Proposed midyear budget includes $65 million in cuts for the UC system.</p>
<p>• UC regents adopted a resolution that freshman enrollments next fall will be curtailed by as many as 10,000 students if funding is short.</p>
<p>• At the same meeting, regents removed student fee and tuition increases from their budget for next school year.</p>
<p>• UC President Mark Yudof suggested the system might even cut enrollment by denying admission to students’ first-choice campuses and referring them to under-enrolled campuses such as UC Merced.</p>
<p>Publication: Sacramento Bee</p>