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There is also a factor with lag in budgeting. When I first started computer science at my school it was a smaller department (maybe 2-3 intro cources of 50 people). When I was a JR, my department didn't have the budget to put out a off schedule OS course. The budget was consumed by 13 intro courses.

As I was graduating, my program not only had 10-13 intro courses but had 4x as many electives as it had when I started.

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Budgeting is an issue with my school as well. Our school is understaffed and has been opening up positions for new faculty hiring, including hiring teaching only positions (where they hire PhDs for such positions, with renewal contracts).

I've also heard of the idea of charging a departmental fee to become a CS major, similar to the idea that certain engineering departments have such fees. The idea here is that this fee would go towards the department but allow the student access to things like hacker spaces and or other resources that everyone else in the school would be presumably excluded from. A lot of things are trying to be figured out to address this issue.

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