Cal State San Bernardino faces the prospect of limiting student access to enrollment as a consequence of reduced state funding and painful expense cuts on campus.

As many as 2,000 would-be CSUSB students might be refused fall admission and 90 adjunct professors and 50 staff positions are in harm's way, university President Albert Karnig said in an interview Friday.

"We have to find roughly $9 million in actual budget reductions," he said.

With the governor's budget revise a week away and final approval of the budget even further away, the CSU and the individual campuses don't know exactly how much will be cut, but they need to plan anyway.

Rather than take a slash-and-burn approach to the cuts, Karnig said all programs campuswide will bear the reductions.

Academic departments must reduce spending by 5.6 percent and administrative branches must cut expenditures by 9 percent.

"Next year it will roll down even further," Karnig said, projecting that the next few years will continue in this trend.

Enrollment caps posing limited access is a threat to higher education, he said. Cal State San Bernardino might have to refer students to the community colleges.

On Friday, the CSU announced that eight campuses are not taking additional students and have redirected 3,800 applicants to community colleges, with the promise students can transfer to one of the universities when they complete their lower-division requirements. The campuses are: Chico, Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos and Sonoma.

Though student fees will likely increase, Karnig doesn't think the rising cost will be a deterrent for new students because there are numerous scholarships and loan programs available. Last school year, 44 percent of CSUSB students used federal grants to help pay for their education, he said.

A public education in California is still far more affordable than an education in other states, Karnig said. The national tuition average for public universities is $4,694.

The CSU board of trustees is slated to vote on student fee increases in two weeks. Unlike community colleges, Cal State campuses retain their students fees.

Undergraduate students could see their tuition jump from $2,046 to $2,251. Graduate students would pay about $900 more from $2,256 and international students will see a jump of about $2,000 to $12,421.