"Marty Block, San Diego State University professor, dean, and director turned Assemblyman is proposing a bill that would allow some California Community Colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing and other “high demand” subjects. “For the first time, in more than a decade, [SDSU] has said they will not admit all CSU qualified freshmen,” Block said, “So somebody has to provide them with that educational access.”
SDSU is not the only university applying this policy. With the budget crisis hitting the California State University system and University of California system the hardest, California’s higher education is cutting enrollment. Assemblyman Block seems to believe that allowing community colleges to award bachelor’s degrees would give California students access to the educational opportunities they need."