CSUs may limit enrollment because of budget crisis

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the California State University system may have to limit its enrollment from its 23 campuses because of the state's tightening budget.

System trustees on Wednesday will consider a proposal for the enrollment cuts as well as a plan to increase tuition for business school graduate students.

While individual campuses have closed enrollment in the past, such a move has never been imposed across the entire system, which is the largest four-year university operation in the country. The proposal does not estimate how many students could be denied admission, but it could be thousands.

His proposal follows the announcement this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is beset by a multibillion-dollar shortfall in the state budget, of midyear funding cuts of $66.3 million to CSU. This summer, the state slashed $31.3 million in CSU funds.