Saturday, June 13, 2009

Cal Poly Pomona cuts summer sessions - Gale Holland, LA Times Blog

Citing “catastrophic” funding cuts, Cal Poly Pomona has canceled its summer sessions, offering instead pay-as-you-go classes that could cost students more than twice as much as regular summer courses. Cal Poly Pomona President J. Michael Ortiz, in an e-mail Sunday, told students that the governor’s proposed cut to the university of $20 million to $35 million had left him with “no choice” but to shut down the early and late summer sessions.