At a teleconference with reporters, Chancellor Reed said he had the authority to cut enrollment without approval from the Board of Trustees.
That leaves two choices, some educational leaders have said: Raise tuition or cut enrollment at public campuses.
To cut enrollment, the system would push up application deadlines and raise academic requirements for freshmen at the most popular campuses, he said.
* The University of California has increased tuition by 32percentt and reduced freshman enrollment by 2,300 students; the California State University system cut enrollment by 40,000 students.
Ron Pollack, executive director of the consumer group Families USA, said the Obama administration should not allow states to cut enrollment or benefits that are required by federal law.
Critics see the remediation ban as a way to cut enrollment -- and undermine open admissions, which was created to steer minorities, immigrants and the poor into the American mainstream.
B1 OBITUARIES B10 EDUCATION B11 CUNY Enrollments Are Up The number of new freshmen at City University senior colleges rose 5percentthis fallll, and at some campuses by more than 20percentt, despite predictions that ending remedial instruction would cut enrollment.
The net result: The GOP plan would reduce Medicaid enrollment by 14 million, cut enrollment in individual market health-care plans by 2 million and even reduce employer-provided insurance by 7 million people.
Many Faculties Act To Cut Enrollment Nevertheless, dozens of law schools, faced with the prospect of going deeper into their applicant pools to fill their classrooms, have decided to become smaller.
But when the proposed state cuts, including those to badly needed subsidies for school electrical payments, are combined with anticipated reductions in public and privately financed grants, Ms. Anderson estimates that she will have no more than $90,000 to spend next year on the program, which would probably cut enrollment in half.
