CSU encourages 'super seniors' to make way for others
Only about 36 percent of CSU students manage to graduate in five years. The issue isn’t as pressing at the University of California, where 77 percent of students graduate in five years or less. Still, the state’s budget crunch has prompted UC to look at ways of getting students through the system faster. The university’s Commission on the Future is discussing a program for undergrads to earn a degree in three years. Like CSU, UC took a 20 percent cut in state funding last year and is decreasing student enrollment in response. But UC’s enrollment cuts are smaller, and they focus on incoming freshmen
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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.