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"In the past, community colleges have been able to serve everyone, and students could accrue a large number of units or do poorly in all of their courses cheap car rentals seattle and still receive priority registration," said Chancellor Jack Scott, who is retiring this week after overseeing many of the reform efforts. "Now that colleges have had to cut back on the courses they can offer, those students were taking up seats in classrooms and crowding out newer students focused on job training, degree attainment or transfer."
The new requirements were unanimously approved by the Board of Governors, meeting at San Diego City College. They take effect in fall 2014. The system's 112 campuses will make a big push to inform current students of the new rules, give those on academic probation a chance to improve their grades and give those nearing the unit cap to plan their remaining course schedules, cheap car rentals seattle officials said.
Most of the measures have been endorsed by academic and student organizations, but some critics argue they will hamper low-income and disadvantaged students, especially those unfamiliar with college.
According to a recent cheap car rentals seattle survey by the chancellor's office, more than 470,000 students began the fall semester on waiting lists, unable to get classes they need, while overall enrollment dropped from about 2.9 million in the 2008-09 academic year to 2.4 million in 2011-12. The number of class sections offered, meanwhile, decreased from 522,727 in 2008-09 to 399,540 in 2011-12, a nearly 24% decline.
"Some students will struggle for any number of reasons; but having said that, we are at a point in time where we don't have as many resources as we used to and we've got to place some criteria around registration," Himelstein said. "This will place priority on students who are motivated and showing good progress above those who in some cases quite frankly are meandering through the system."
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