Spring Break
Clock ticks for CSU incomers
Kristin Furtado
Issue date: 1/23/08 Section: News
Incoming freshmen interested in applying to San Jose State University for Fall 2008 will need to do it quickly. In response to Gov. Schwarzenegger's decision to cut $313 million from the California State University system budget, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed pushed up the application deadline for fall 2008 from early summer to Feb. 1.
The deadline is set to limit the number of students admitted for fall, said CSU spokesman Paul Browning. It has been extended to March 1 for seven under-enrolled campuses, he said. SJSU's deadline is Feb. 1.
Under the governor's proposed budget, the CSU system will be unable to accommodate next year's enrollment growth of about 10,000 students, Browning said.
In a system that's already under-funded, the cuts to the CSU could adversely affect the state's economy in years to come, said Browning, who also said CSUs generate about 90,000 students into the work force each year.
"It hurts the students and the California work force in the long run," he said.
Traditionally, freshmen SJSU applicants had until June 15 to turn in their paperwork, but due to the high volume of applications already received, SJSU had already planned to move the application deadline to Feb. 15, before the CSU issued the Feb. 1 directive, said Colleen Brown, interim associate vice president of enrollment and academic services.
Local high schools and community colleges were notified about the earlier application deadline, she said. SJSU also moved up the deadline for transfer students to April 1, a decision not required by the CSU.
"It was very new information," said Dea Nelson, publications coordinator for enrollment and academic services, of the CSU directive. Although the push to move up the deadline was largely expected, she said, some information within the chancellor's message was not - namely new restrictions on lower-division transfer students. Nelson said that in the past, students were able to transfer from a community college to a CSU at any time, even if they had not completed their general education coursework.
The deadline is set to limit the number of students admitted for fall, said CSU spokesman Paul Browning. It has been extended to March 1 for seven under-enrolled campuses, he said. SJSU's deadline is Feb. 1.
Under the governor's proposed budget, the CSU system will be unable to accommodate next year's enrollment growth of about 10,000 students, Browning said.
In a system that's already under-funded, the cuts to the CSU could adversely affect the state's economy in years to come, said Browning, who also said CSUs generate about 90,000 students into the work force each year.
"It hurts the students and the California work force in the long run," he said.
Traditionally, freshmen SJSU applicants had until June 15 to turn in their paperwork, but due to the high volume of applications already received, SJSU had already planned to move the application deadline to Feb. 15, before the CSU issued the Feb. 1 directive, said Colleen Brown, interim associate vice president of enrollment and academic services.
Local high schools and community colleges were notified about the earlier application deadline, she said. SJSU also moved up the deadline for transfer students to April 1, a decision not required by the CSU.
"It was very new information," said Dea Nelson, publications coordinator for enrollment and academic services, of the CSU directive. Although the push to move up the deadline was largely expected, she said, some information within the chancellor's message was not - namely new restrictions on lower-division transfer students. Nelson said that in the past, students were able to transfer from a community college to a CSU at any time, even if they had not completed their general education coursework.
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