With the California State University facing about $100 million in expected budget cuts, its Board of Trustees will today discuss limiting enrollment at all of its 23 campuses for Spring 2009.

The unprecedented decision may be necessary to maintain quality education standards for those enrolled in a system already serving more students than its budget can adequately handle, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed said in an e-mail to faculty. And while the system must shave another $97.6 million from its programs, student applications for Fall 2009 increased by 20 percent from last year.

According to the agenda for today's meeting, declaring system-wide impaction would close all CSU campuses to admission applications after Nov. 30. Each university would then manage its enrollment with the following criteria, should its number of applications exceed its enrollment target:

*Admission priority would go to veterans of U.S. military service, local first-time freshmen and local upper-division transfer students. "This will ensure continued access to students who do not have the resources to relocate, who have family obligations, or who have family commitments. Many of these students are underserved, first-generation students," according to the agenda.

*Non-local first-time freshmen and non-local upper-division transfer students will be put on wait lists, which may be sorted by criteria such as eligibility index scores (SAT and/or ACT) for first-time freshmen and grade point average for transfer students.

*Lower-division transfer students will not be admitted, except maybe nursing or engineering students if campus programs are not full.

*Unclassified postbaccalaureate students will also not be admitted, and students seeking a second baccalaureate will not likely be admitted unless they seek degrees in science, engineering, math or nursing.

Associate Vice President of Enrollment Jo Volkert was not immediately available for comment.