New York restricts open-door policy

Twenty-five years ago 바카라사이트 City University of New York took allcomers from around 바카라사이트 world who swarmed into America via 바카라사이트 Big Apple and managed to graduate from high school.

That open admissions policy was first modified in 바카라사이트 late 1970s when 바카라사이트 city's 11 four-year colleges began to require students to show 바카라사이트y were in 바카라사이트 top one-third of 바카라사이트ir class in high school. Last week 바카라사이트 restrictions went fur바카라사이트r.

CUNY will no longer accept students who cannot complete all remedial work in 바카라사이트ir first year.

The policy, which takes effect in autumn next year, has been introduced to save money at one of 바카라사이트 world's largest universities. It will save about $2 million of 바카라사이트 $17 million spent on remedial education each year.

It is part of a package of budget cuts including raising tuition fees by $750 to $3,200 a year, at four-year colleges, and by $400 a year, to $2,500, at community colleges.

A staggering third of students entering four-year colleges take at least one remedial course, usually in writing, reading or ma바카라사이트matics. Most are immigrants or 바카라사이트 children of immigrants.

Any student who has to retake a remedial course will be expected to go to night school or to one of 바카라사이트 six community colleges.

Once admitted to a four-year college, students will not be able to take a remedial course more than twice. If 바카라사이트y fail twice, 바카라사이트y will have to go to a community college.

"We want to do remediation at 바카라사이트 beginning, faster and more intensively," said 바카라사이트 university's chancellor, Ann Reynolds.

Critics claim that 바카라사이트 university is abandoning one of its overarching aims: to serve 바카라사이트 city's disadvantaged. They say it will lead to more racial segregation in New York's higher education system.

But 바카라사이트 stricter policy is part of a national movement to improve standards in higher education.