Sign of the Times: No Spring Enrollment at CSU

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<p>[CSU</a> shuts door on spring enrollment](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/09/MNJS18LRG1.DTL]CSU”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/09/MNJS18LRG1.DTL)</p>

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For the first time, the California State University will accept no new students for its spring semester, CSU announced Thursday. About 35,000 students enroll each spring. But CSU needs to cut $584 million from its budget and has slammed that door shut.

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Reducing enrollment is part of a budget-cutting strategy that will probably include faculty layoffs and employee furloughs, Chancellor Charles Reed told trustees earlier this week. CSU also will find ways to reduce enrollment by another 9 percent over the next two years.

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<p>This move includes what is probably the most well-known CSU, Cal Poly. The cutback affects 23 campuses statewide.</p>