Crowded classrooms, overworked faculty and dropped courses. Sound familiar? The struggles UCLA students are facing in the current budgetary crisis will be felt across the state, as more community colleges take on more applicants and try to accommodate more students.
With a recent UC freshman enrollment cap, the two-year college system faces greater numbers of newcomers deterred from public universities, according to the Los Angeles Times. The influx of students comes at a bad time for community colleges statewide, many of them not having enough funding for their currently enrolled 2.5 million students.
This board still stands by our endorsement of the UC Board of Regents’ reduction of student enrollment by 2,300 for the 2009-2010 academic year.
In an effort to balance our own devastated budget, others were adversely affected. The state legislature has put all students pursuing higher education at a disadvantage. We are all suffering together while a state budget plan is up in the air.
The UC enrollment cap will hopefully reduce enrollment over the next few years. Simply, the UC system has enrolled more students that it can afford.