This situation actually provides the CSU system with an opportunity that won't be capitalized upon in this politically correct universe in which we reside.
Now is the perfect time to raise the academic standards. Let me be blunt. The Cal State campuses in the high density Latino areas now suck the long one. Schools like Cal State L.A. and CSUN graduate a smaller percentage of their student bodies and offer far more remedial English and Mathematics courses, as a matter of necessity, than they did in decades past.
Since I graduated (hundreds of years ago) the UC and CSU systems have added several campuses. We don't need them. Close them down/suspend operations for a couple years. Is it that we don't have a larger population than we did in 1980 or 1990? No, of course not. However, with the sorry state of the public schools in population heavy areas (San Bernardino, L.A., Orange County, San Jose, San Diego, etc.) we're simply not producing as much 4 year university material.
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