An additional ongoing 10 percent drop in enrollment and state budget cuts can be expected in the 2010-11 academic year at Cal State Long Beach.
Warned by Interim Provost Donald Para with a PowerPoint presentation Wednesday afternoon at the Anatol Center, the faculty were visibly dejected after the meeting mapped out three possible scenarios of the preliminary budget outlook — “all of which are very grim,” he said. “Next year looks considerably more difficult.”
The possibility of additional state budget cuts was also listed.
Dean Toji, an Asian American studies professor who attended the meeting, was worried about the “promises” high school students have been made about getting into college.
“I think the reduction of admissions is completely wrong,” he said. “The classes that you have to take [in high school], what did they tell you? If you take these classes and if you get the grades, then you’re into Cal State [or] you’re into a UC. We promised them that, right?
“These students did everything that they were supposed to do … and our system is saying, ‘All right, the deal is off.’ … Some of these students that aren’t getting in this year, some of them are never going to go to college.”
The reduction in enrollment will trigger a loss in fee revenue, according to the presentation. Enrollment is expected to drop from 35,800 students this year to “about 33,300” next year, CSULB President F. King Alexander told the Daily 49er in late August.