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CSU Long Beach will see fewer students, along with the system's 22 other campuses (Photo by LA Wad via LAist Featured Photos/Flickr)
These cuts come when the CSU has seen a dramatic increase in applications: 53% overall from the same period last year. While 32% belongs to hopeful freshmen, the increase at this time is most likely due to hopeful transfer students, who found that applications were not being accepted for them last spring at all.
Many applicants are drawn to the CSU because of its relative affordability (though tuition has been hiked multiple times in recent years) and the opportunity they extend to incoming students to matriculate while completing some of their remediation work or core work not completed at community college. However, students the latter category may find the CSU locking them out based on those obligations.
"[W]e cannot educate more students with less," says Chancellor Charles Reed, in defense of the impending enrollment limits. The "less" comes from the crippling state-level budget cuts that have left campuses with no choice but to slash course offerings, ration resources, and put nearly all employees on mandatory furloughs. Oh, and raise tuition, again: "The Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the new budget -- which may include a 10% fee hike -- next week before it goes to the governor and Legislature."
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The new norm will be a lot more students applying for limited enrollments at state schools.
Obama and his team took the benefits, and in some ways the legality, of financial institutions offering private student loans. So beginning next year the only way to get loans for college tuition is from the government.
right now, there is no secondary market for collateralized debt obligations on student loans, like what existed before, so there is less money available.
Kids who were able to go to $20K/year schools now are enrolling in state schools. And kids who would normally be going to non-state schools now apply for state schools because of the cost.
In short, Obama made higher education more expensive, and more difficult to attain a degree.
So if you have less college degrees in the job market you have less higher income individuals, which means a declining tax stream for the government, which then means MORE cuts to the budget. Don't believe this theory... city of Detroit. Detroit's problems got worse year after year because of the decline in the population of $60+K/yr income earners.
They usually accept 40,000k students in the fall. By not accepting any applications, that is how they reduced the student body by 40,000k, meaning they'll accept the same number of applicants this fall, just a lower percentage due to the surge in applications.
Also, CSU closed applications for freshman, graduate MA, and transfer students alike this past spring. You know, since they aren't the type of university (UC, private) that only accepts freshmen Fall; the increase is likely do to your average mix of applicants, not just transfers...
And by "in the fall" i meant "in the spring"