University ‘forced to ration’ education - SignOnSanDiego.com:
"“We are being forced to ration educational opportunity,” Weber said at a meeting with the Union-Tribune editorial board, which editors and a reporter attended. The board regularly meets with newsmakers to discuss current events. The university requested the meeting weeks ago, not long after making the policy change in September. The change affects prospective students who are applying now for admission in 2010. Hundreds of qualified applicants — perhaps as many as 1,000 — may lose out on an SDSU education next fall as a result of the policy change, Ethan Singer, associate vice president for academic affairs, said in an interview. Last fall, the university said, about 4,500 members of its freshman class were from the service area that includes high schools south of state Route 56 and all of Imperial County. In the past decade, an average of about 37 percent of SDSU's first-time freshmen came from the service area each year, although that number has topped 54 percent the past two years."
"“We are being forced to ration educational opportunity,” Weber said at a meeting with the Union-Tribune editorial board, which editors and a reporter attended. The board regularly meets with newsmakers to discuss current events. The university requested the meeting weeks ago, not long after making the policy change in September. The change affects prospective students who are applying now for admission in 2010. Hundreds of qualified applicants — perhaps as many as 1,000 — may lose out on an SDSU education next fall as a result of the policy change, Ethan Singer, associate vice president for academic affairs, said in an interview. Last fall, the university said, about 4,500 members of its freshman class were from the service area that includes high schools south of state Route 56 and all of Imperial County. In the past decade, an average of about 37 percent of SDSU's first-time freshmen came from the service area each year, although that number has topped 54 percent the past two years."