From the LA Times:
California State University officials made a big announcement on Monday, saying that they plan to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and wait-list all applicants the following fall because of budget uncertainty.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/csu-enrollment-freeze-tell-us-what-you-think.html
The current crisis in higher education is the result of specific economic policies put in place only in the last 40 years. At issue here is neoliberalism. See this informed and incisive post by Brad Borevitz:
How did we go from free public higher education to a system so expensive it requires crippling levels of student debt? If education is still a public good, why have we shifted the burden of paying for it to youth who have to mortgage their future in order to learn? And why have we started to ration education? Enrollment has been cut across the system: the 2010 school year saw drops of 68,000 students at community colleges, 20,000 at the CSUs.
http://onetwothree.net/writing/impact-neoliberal-policies-education-california
