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New students who want to
attend California State University, Fresno in the fall have until
February 1 to apply. After that, enrollment will be closed to first-time
freshmen and some transfers under a systemwide mandate imposed by
Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the 23-campus California State
University.
The Feb. 1 deadline is being enforced in response to a $312.9 million
cut to the CSU budget proposed by Gov. Schwarzenegger last week. The
proposed budget fails to fund access for 10,000 CSU students and $36
million in mandatory costs, including employee health benefits and
compensation agreements for CSU faculty and staff, Reed said.
Approximately 600 potential Fresno State students could be affected next
fall, said Bernie Vinovrksi, associate vice president of enrollment
services.
“Unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate the anticipated
enrollment growth” if the proposed cut becomes reality, Vinovrksi said.
The chancellor’s mandate will not affect enrollment directly for the
spring semester that begins at Fresno State today (Jan. 15). Spring 2007
enrollment is projected at 20,667, one of Fresno State’s highest spring
enrollments.
Currently enrolled students and those already admitted for next year
will not be affected and priority will be given to ensuring that they
get the classes they need.
“This action to curtail enrollment in light of the budget problem helps
ensure that students will not lose classes they need,” Vinovrski said.
Last week, Fresno State
President John D. Welty met with other CSU presidents and Reed to learn
how the governor’s proposal would affect higher education.
Welty said after the meeting
that Fresno State would be forced “to curtail our enrollment and take
several steps to reduce our expenditures.”
“It is most unfortunate that
this will result in our preparing fewer nurses, teachers, engineers and
other key people who are desperately needed in Central California,” said
Welty. “I will be working with our campus leadership in the next few
days to determine the actions we will need to take to address this
difficult situation.”
Vinovrksi said Fresno State
will follow the proposed CSU management action plan:
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Campuses must cease
accepting admission applications for fall 2008 from first-time
freshmen no later than Feb. 1.
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Campuses are no longer
permitted to admit or enroll individuals who are lower-division
transfer applicants (except for nursing and engineering),
upper-division transfer applicants not fully eligible for admission,
applicants seeking a second baccalaureate degree and unclassified
postbaccalaureate applicants
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Local area applicants
must be accorded the highest priority for admission to unimpacted
admissions categories and other applicants may be “wait-listed”
pending determination of enrollment capacity and/or meeting
admissions requirements.
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Unimpacted upper-division
transfer admission should remain open until a campus achieves its
enrollment target.
To be fully eligible for
admission as an upper-division transfer student, applicants must meet
the following minimum admission requirements:
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Complete 60 or more
transferable semester units with an overall grade-point average of
2.0 or better in all transferable units attempted;
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Be in good standing at
the last college or university attended;
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Complete at least 30
semester units or general education courses, graded C or better in
each course, including the following four courses (the Golden 4):
one course each in written communications, oral communications,
critical thinking and mathematics/quantitative reasoning.
Read the CSU press release at
http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2008/01/Budget.htm.
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