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Fall semester
finds impacted programs
By Rebecca Christiansen
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
After last fall's
high enrollment, more students than ever are coming back to
Cal State Long Beach this semester, filling the campus and
most of the school's departments to the brink.
Some programs are more popular than others and could be declared
impacted as of next fall, but not for the spring semester.
Impacted programs are those that have more applicants than
can be accommodated, thus restricting admissions policies.
Hardest hit is the College of Business Administration, which
by fall will make it tougher for students to declare business
administration -- including the various options of accountancy,
finance, real estate and law, human resources management,
information systems, and marketing -- as their majors.
"CBA will be impacted from fall '02, not from spring
'02," said Mo Khan, associate dean for the College of
Business Administration.
Students with a 3.0 GPA will automatically be accepted into
the business program. Those with a 2.4 to 2.99 GPA will be
admitted on a space-available basis. Anyone below a 2.4 GPA
will not be accepted.
Admission criteria applies equally between non-resident and
resident students.
Another candidate for impaction is computer science, according
to the College of Engineering. However, as of this spring
semester, the college not officially declared any impacted
majors.
The art department has been impacted in graphic design for
the past 20 years. The department plans on requesting impaction
for an art degree by fall 2003. Only transfer students would
be affected.
"The problem is that art has been growing at an extremely
rapid pace for the past four years, typically triple the rate
of university growth," said Jay Kvapil, chairman of the
art department. "We can't continue to grow at that pace
and maintain the quality that our programs are known for."
In 1996, CSULB had 1,200 art majors, Kvapil said. Now, the
number stands at more than 1,600.
Impaction in the art department will require raising the GPA
for applying students. The graphic design major will require
a portfolio review, along with a 3.0 GPA and 15 units in previous
art courses. Other degrees in fine arts will only require
a portfolio, as it has always been.
Another program on students' all-time most wanted list includes
the College of Liberal Arts' psychology program.
It is unclear which programs -- except those within the College
of Business Administration -- will be declared impacted from
fall 2002, and therefore, if and how the school will change
its acceptance policy in regards to such programs.
What is clear, is there is still some time before most changes
take place, and, still time to get into that program of choice.
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