Recent reports show that undergraduate enrollment at California State Universities still suffers from a pandemic-induced drop as fewer transfer students arrive from the state's community colleges.
Despite first-time freshman numbers rebounding to their pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, the decreases in transfer are having an impact on the 23 Cal State campuses.
"I want to be clear about this," she said."This is not an individual university or campus issue. This is a system issue." The decrease in transfers is a domino effect from record-low enrollment at the state's community colleges. Since 2019, the 115 physical community colleges have lost about 300,000 students. The system's 1.8 million enrollment is the lowest in 30 years.
"A sustained decline in enrollment throughout the CSU presents fundamental and significant threats to our mission," Koester said."It presents fundamental and significant threats to the viability of our universities and the future of the communities those universities serve. A sustained decline in enrollment will result in losses of tuition and campus fees."
Earlier this year, CSU made a budget agreement with the governor's office to receive financial increases of 5% over the next five years that included making progress on growing enrollment. CSU agreed to add 14,000 more undergraduate students over four years through 2026-27. That's equivalent to annual enrollment growth of 1%.
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