UC Enrollment Cuts Could Affect Community Colleges

by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron

Sat, Jan 24, 2009 8:25AM

Thursday, January 22, 2009 : A new semester kicked off this week at the University of California’s flagship campus in Berkeley, but it’s hardly business as usual for California’s premier university system. Facing a looming budget deficit and slim prospects for help from the impoverished state government, UC announced a package of cuts ranging from an executive pay freeze to a 2,300 student system-wide cut in enrollment.

The fact that the university is making cuts to balance the budget is hardly surprising given the down economy. However, the cut in enrollment is striking at one of the nation’s premier public university system – which has in recent years experienced a boom in applications as California’s population has grown.

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