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Admission 2015 - Strengthening Admission Requirements

The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System (CSUS), which includes Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut State Universities, has voted to strengthen academic admission standards for students beginning as soon as 2015, in subjects including math, science, social studies, world language and the arts.

The decision signaled the Board's commitment to heightened standards at the four CSUS universities, but left flexibility in the actual effective date of the new requirements to permit local school districts sufficient time to assure that students will have an opportunity to complete the necessary academic coursework. *The new requirements become effective beginning in "2015 or thereafter (at the Board's discretion)."

New Requirements

The new requirementsfor admission to the four CSUS universities include:

• 4 years of English
  including composition
• 4 years of Mathematics
  including Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra 2
• 3 years of Science
  including two laboratory science courses
• 3 years of Social Studies
  with U.S. History required
• 2 years of World Languages
  (may be met by demonstrating world language competency at the second level)
• 1 year of coursework in the arts

The new admission standards are more specific in terms of coursework than the current guidelines, and add requirements in math (moving from 3 years to 4 years, with Algebra 1 and 2 and Geometry to be required), science (moving from 2 years to 3 years, and laboratory science moving from 1 year to 2 years), social studies (moving from "2 to 3 years" to 3 years), world language (reaffirming and clarifying 2 years) and the arts (1 year).

"The college freshmen of 2015 are in middle school today. Their coursework should put them on a path for academic success in high school and beyond. If we are to adequately prepare our young people and our state to thrive in a global economy, we must provide students with the education that 21st century jobs will require."

David G. Carter
CSUS Chancellor