Finances Force Cal State System to Cut Students

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Faced with an increasingly bleak financial outlook, California State University officials said Thursday that they would have to slash enrollment at the 23-campus system by up to 10,000 students next year – the first-ever cut of its type.

Under the plan, students living within the geographic region of each campus will have first priority. At the nine busiest campuses, including Cal State Northridge, the enrollment period for fall 2009 admission will end Nov. 30. In the past it has run into winter and even spring.

CSUN expects to see its total full-time student enrollment shrink by 1,100, to 25,700 in fall 2009 from 26,800 this fall. The freshman class will be hit hardest, falling from 4,625 this fall to 4,000 next fall.

California’s 2008-09 budget grants the Cal State system $215 million less than what officials say it needs to cover current enrollment growth and expenses.


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