Private colleges getting boost from budget woes at public universities
Pfursich, the vice president for enrollment at Whittier College, said his school has reached capacity and actually had to trim its enrollment numbers a bit this year… the problems at California’s public universities have undoubtedly played a role. “Everything that happens at the CSU and the UC has an impact on the private smaller universities in California,” Pfursich said. Richard Vos, vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Claremont McKenna College, agreed. “We have seen a spillover effect from the woes of public universities,” Vos said. Like Whittier College, Claremont McKenna is at full capacity, Vos said… “Personally, I’m not happy about this,” Vos said. “I think it’s bad public policy.”
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by J.D. Velasco, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
