SJSU turns away future Spartans

With the recent $594 million California State University budget cut for the 2009-2010 school year and increasing student fees, I was surprised to discover that SJSU will not be accepting any prospective freshman for the spring 2010 semester.

According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, that by closing spring admissions, CSUs hope to pull through the 20 percent decrease in state funding.

This is happening all too quickly — I was still trying to grasp the fact that this past July, CSUs decided to turn away 40,000 incoming students over the course of two years — but now zero within a few months.

However, it won’t stop here.

Over the next two years, CSUs are planning on reducing enrollment by an additional nine percent, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Just last spring, SJSU admitted 2,600 students including freshman, transfer students and graduate students.

While the enrollment reduction could potentially help the CSU campuses in the long run, it is nevertheless affecting current students.

As a graduate student, I’m equally experiencing the frustrations of furlough days, classes being cut and getting all of my classes done in time for me to graduate, despite the current economic crisis.

One can only hope that as more and more students are being turned away, money is being saved, but who knows what the future of the CSU education will bring.

At least on the plus side of all this, there may be more open spots in classes for currently enrolled students.

Andrea Pyka

-Art Director