Budget cuts alone won't help the California State University System make ends meet.
With budget reductions year after year and a potential additional $250 million trigger cut on the horizon, only 10 CSU campuses will be accepting new student applications for the spring semester. Moreover, those students will have to have earned an Associate Degree for transfer from a California Community College. "This decision is based more on previous budget cuts, specifically the $750 million that was cut from the 2011-12 school year and because of that cut we are technically over-enrolled across the system," said Mike Uhlenkamp, CSU spokesman. "What we're trying to do is bring enrollment down to match the available level of funding and the decision was made to limit the application cycle for spring 2012-13, which opened Aug. 1." Community college students usually transfer in the spring and it's usually 16,000 to 18,000 of them, Uhlenkamp said.
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