So those of you who are sick of hearing about politics I decided to post something that would all be related to us right now. As you all know it is incredibly hard to get into the UC system. Well it only gets worse:
Regents voted to limit enrollment next fall to help cope with an ongoing budget crisis plaguing both UC and the state. The regents, meeting through a teleconference, also agreed to freeze salaries of 285 top administrators and senior managers. UC already has about 11,000 students for whom it gets no state funding - creating a $122 million shortfall. Cutting freshmen admissions would save $20 million. curtailed enrollment meant that about 150 black students might not get in, he noted that community college transfers next fall would increase by 500 systemwide - to a total of 13,223 - producing a better racial, ethnic and class mix. There will be 2,300 fewer freshmen this year enrolled in the UC schools in fall 2009. one third of these students in the UC system are going to be made up of community college transfers. It looks like we all will have to be working as hard as ever senior year to make the cuts. It seems like they are encouraging students to go the community college route anyway which may not only save money for the school but for students' families as well. A wise desicion?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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Even though the community college route may save more money in the long-run, I don't think it should be done if there are other college opportunities. To me, community college almost seems like an add-on to high school. Assuming that kids would go to community colleges near the area (in this case, CSM), they wouldn't really be leaving home at all. And though the difficulty of the courses goes up, I just feel like students wouldn't be able to get the same college experience, with dorm rooms and cafeterias, etc. I'm sure that the fact that the colleges are taking more community college transfers probably creates more incentive for people to transfer after two years, but once you've been in community college for two years, it may be a little harder to push yourself to make that transition.
While I do agree with Sarah, I think that community college is not such a bad thing for several reasons. One, it can lessen the huge onslaught of people all trying to get into the big colleges at the same time, thus resulting in fewer people getting what they wanted. Additionally, and personally (because this is what I'm doing) I think community college is just enough like college that it can sort of ease an individual into the experience. I am however a strong believer in "the college experience." I would never advocate only going to community college, but I think that transfer is a great idea for people who maybe just want to take it easy for a year or two after the intensity of high school. Personally, I think that after more of the same in community college, it would be easier to move on because of all the extra time people will have been doing the same sort of thing.
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