Across the Cal State system, campus officials are limiting enrollment using higher admission standards to do so. Currently, 18 of the 23 universities restrict applicants; a decade ago only eight campuses did so… Efforts to manage enrollment picked up pace during the financial crisis that began in 2008, when California’s public higher education systems were hit with billions of dollars in state funding cuts. That funding has yet to return to pre-recession levels… An estimated 25,000 qualified high school graduates have been turned away from Cal State campuses in recent years, many of them turning to community colleges, private universities and out-of-state institutions, said Eric Forbes, Cal State’s assistant vice chancellor for student academic services. Even so, most campuses are serving more students than they have been funded for by the state. Those excess students create bottlenecks that stall time to graduation.

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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

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