One of the main drivers for these initiatives is to reduce the time of graduation for students, which I believe was 46% graduation rate within six years. When y

One of the main drivers for these initiatives is to reduce the time of graduation for students, which I believe was 46% graduation rate within six years. When you add in the mix of minority students who aren't properly prepared for college level courses, you get the really low grad rates in the CSU system. The longer you have students taking classes, the more money is costs the CSU, so they have an interest in lowering that number. Of course, the way they are going about it is bad in my opinion. Professors are pressured to not fail students in key classes that tend to slow down the graduation rates. One way to do that is to have non-tenured faculty teach these courses, who can be let go for not enforcing these practices. Lecturer's are hired on a contract basis, and may not be rehired. I've seen some lecturers on one year contracts. Some of this is not completely a bad thing in my opinion. I remember losing half of an Organic Chem class by the middle of the semester, due to the sink or swim mentality in many of the sciences/engineering faculty.