Cal State L.A. plan to raise admissions standards faces pushback from students and faculty
Each year, thousands more qualified students apply to Cal State L.A. than the campus has the funding or space to accommodate. Now campus officials want to raise admissions standards and shrink the fall 2020 class. If officials decide to do so and the Cal State chancellor’s office approves, Cal State L.A. will join six other Cal State campuses — Fresno, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Diego, San Jose and San Luis Obispo — that declared themselves fully “impacted,” meaning they have too many qualified applicants for all levels and programs, and made similar changes… Campus enrollment has increased by 25% since 2012 while funding for expanding enrollment has gone up only about 2%.
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by Suhauna Hussain, The Los Angeles Times.