SDSU closes its doors to transfer contracts
Cristo de Guzman
Issue date: 11/10/09 Section: News
"SDSU is now unilaterally changing those requirements," added Valladolid. "This action will disenfranchise many transfer students."
"We don't want to enroll students that we can't serve," said Dr. Stephen Weber, president of SDSU, in a KPBS radio interview. "We don't want them to come when we can't give them classes."
But another issue is that many have perceived SDSU as abandoning its responsibility as a post-secondary institution to local students leaving high school and entering college.
"It is not only an issue of policy but of justice," said San Diego Community College District board of trustee member Maria Senour. She pointed out the new eligibility procedures as being "contrary to the California Master Plan for Higher Education," a statewide policy which included the establishment of the principle of universal access and choice to the state's public universities.
In response, the SDSU reps stated the university was committed in preserving its "historic ratio," or average of local students to out-of-service students, which has averaged 37 percent for the last decade.
"We'll give enough extra points to local students to preserve that historic ratio which has held for the last eleven years," Weber said in a radio interview the following day.
For many of the students who will be turned away, the community college will be a viable option.
"The community college's door is wide open," said Mary Rider, a counselor at Grossmont College, quoting Frederick Douglass, "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
"We don't want to enroll students that we can't serve," said Dr. Stephen Weber, president of SDSU, in a KPBS radio interview. "We don't want them to come when we can't give them classes."
But another issue is that many have perceived SDSU as abandoning its responsibility as a post-secondary institution to local students leaving high school and entering college.
"It is not only an issue of policy but of justice," said San Diego Community College District board of trustee member Maria Senour. She pointed out the new eligibility procedures as being "contrary to the California Master Plan for Higher Education," a statewide policy which included the establishment of the principle of universal access and choice to the state's public universities.
In response, the SDSU reps stated the university was committed in preserving its "historic ratio," or average of local students to out-of-service students, which has averaged 37 percent for the last decade.
"We'll give enough extra points to local students to preserve that historic ratio which has held for the last eleven years," Weber said in a radio interview the following day.
For many of the students who will be turned away, the community college will be a viable option.
"The community college's door is wide open," said Mary Rider, a counselor at Grossmont College, quoting Frederick Douglass, "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
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Industrial Pumps
posted 12/14/09 @ 1:27 PM PST
It's really unfortunate that they had to close their doors to transfer students but that's the reality of our current hard times. Schools are being hit pretty hard by the economic situation. (Continued…)
samueljaxon
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posted 2/02/10 @ 10:21 AM PST
Thanks for great news!
Professional Essay Writers
posted 2/03/10 @ 11:43 PM PST
A lot of paperwork, i suppose.
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