By Alexis Figueroa |News Staff| CSUSB students’ schedules will be capped at 17 units when enrolling in Fall 2012, unless they are willing to pay $700 for an additional four unit class. CSUSB is not alone as the CSU system issued a memo in early March that they will regulate a unit limit for all 23 universities in the CSU system, regardless of their financial circumstances, according to a report by KRCRTV.com. The main force behind this change is addressing budget crisis; many CSU campuses have seen the toll the lack of funding have taken on their budget and CSUSB students have seen tuition continuously rising. With the budget crisis, CSUSB students for the 2012-2013 academic year … [Read more...] about 17 unit cap imposed on students at CSUSB in fall
Budget crisis
CSU budget tightens belt
By Angelina Garibay |Staff Writer| The CSU system is being asked to tighten their belts once again in the midst of a budget that could potentially reduce state funding by a total of $1 billion. You can’t open a newspaper or go online without news of California’s budget crisis right in your face. The trouble with so much news is that we can get desensitized to the grave issues that are facing all of us university students throughout the state. It isn’t just the colleges that are suffering. K-12 schools throughout the state are expected to have their budgets sliced as well. Reducing the number of teachers per child will effect how many are prepared for college. The snowball keeps … [Read more...] about CSU budget tightens belt