CSU trustees meeting

California State University trustees are expected to approve a resolution Wednesday allowing only college preparatory classes to be counted in GPAs considered for college admission.

The trustees are meeting in Long Beach Tuesday and Wednesday.

The GPA now used at CSU to determine admission to the university's 23 campuses is based on all courses completed in the last three years of high school.

Under the resolution, only college preparatory requirements would be counted, except for those taken during the freshman year, said Allison Jones, CSU's vice chancellor for academic affairs.

If approved, the new GPA calculations would take effect for this school year's incoming high school freshman, Jones said. It's a formula followed by about half of the universities in the country.

The change would bring CSU's GPA requirement into line with the University of California system.

The two public university systems have maintained different admission standards because each has its own mandate from the state. The more prestigious University of California schools consider only the top12.5 percent of the state's graduating high school seniors, while CSU, dubbed the ''people's university,'' takes the top one-third.

They also are considering a proposal to reduce the number of units required for a bachelor's degree to 120 from the present 124.