Thursday, January 17, 2008

CSU vs. Community Colleges - Battle Over Budget Funds/ Julia Gonzales

In an effort to stave off the harmful affects of the impending proposed state budget cuts totaling $1.1 billion dollars in higher education, the California State University system has announced this week that it has moved up its admission deadline from August 10th, to February 1, to reduce its enrollment by 10,000.

Consequently, it is expected that students will attend the state’s 109 Community Colleges (CC). The CC must now brace itself for the potentially harmful affects that the spike will have on the overall quality of education, as it will admit all who apply, whilst impending budget cuts will not allow them to provide additional courses to teach new students. In sum, those most affected by the likely budget shortfall, will unfortunately be the state’s 10,000 H.S. graduates.

Link: : http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/641089.html

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