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programs pushed to limit
By Jeanne Hoffa
On-line Forty-Niner
Anyone whose GPA dips below 2.4 will have to forget about
being accepted into Cal State Long Beach's business program.
An enrollment of nearly 5,000 students has pushed the capacity
of the College of Business Administration to the limit, prompting
Dean Luis Calingo to request impaction status from the Chancellors
Office.
The college simply has begun to get more applicants than it
has classroom space to put them or faculty to teach them.
The College of Business Administration offers options in management,
finance, accountancy, international business, marketing and
the particularly sought after information systems.
Overcrowded departments suffer when upper division students
struggle to schedule a full load of necessary classes.
When a department attains impaction status, it raises the
eligibility standards of applicants said Keith Polakoff, vice
president of Academic Affairs.
Any student with a 3.0 GPA and has completed required undergraduate
work is guaranteed admission, Polakoff said, with the lowest
possible GPA being 2.4.
How many students within that range that will be accepted
depends upon the number of applicants. Those with the higher
grades will be accepted first.
The popularity of other CSULB programs has forced them to
attain impaction status long ago.
The nursing program - and those at all other California campuses
- is swamped with applicants and can only accept around
100 students per year. It is the single most expensive program
run at the university.
The immensely popular graphic design department can only accept
24 new students each year out of hundreds of applicants, said
Polakoff, adding that there is not enough equipment to accommodate
more.
The psychology and social work programs also have more applicants
than the department can accept.
Three options in kinesiology are overflowing: athletic training,
Kinesio therapy and exercise science. Students with their
eye on a graduate degree in physical therapy are particularly
interested in obtaining those degrees, Polakoff said.
Academic Affairs has worked with Calingo on the proposal that
will go before the Chancellors office. Polakoff said he has
no doubt the status will be granted. The business department
previously held impaction status in 1980 through the mid 1990s.
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