TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University said $88 million in state-imposed budget reductions will force it to enact an enrollment cap for incoming freshman and close about four dozen academic programs.

ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler said Tuesday that no specific enrollment ceiling was announced immediately, but closures will start at once.

Most of the affected programs are on the Tempe campus, but administrative programs on the Polytechnic and ASU West campuses will be scaled down.

ASU is also suspending funding of its AIMS scholarship program.

The application deadline for next semester's freshman class will end March 1, five months earlier than usual.

Programs will be closed in the colleges of arts and sciences, the arts, education, teacher education and leadership, technology and innovation, interdisciplinary arts and sciences and the management and agribusiness school.

All students currently enrolled in programs that will be closed will be able to complete those programs within a reasonable amount of time.

Additional cuts in state funding in FY10 would force ASU to consider additional staff layoffs, a substantial increase in tuition and fees, further limitations on student enrollment, and closing the Polytechnic and West campuses entirely.

“For the past seven years ASU has expanded its enrollment, added new academic programs and enhanced quality and productivity at every level to serve the people of Arizona better,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow. “Making cuts of this sort now is extremely painful to all of us at ASU but we have no choice.”

Polytechnic Campus

The College of Technology and Innovation becomes the sole remaining college. The School of Applied Arts and Sciences has been terminated.

Other changes include:

The school’s Nutrition and Exercise and Wellness programs will become part of the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation on the Downtown campus. The College will be renamed to become the College of Nursing and Health Innovation in light of its broader mission.

The school’s remaining arts, humanities, social science and science programs will continue to be taught at Polytechnic campus but will be administered, respectively, by the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts (Tempe campus), the School of Letters and Sciences (Downtown campus), and the College of Technology and Innovation.

The Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness will merge with and will operate as part of the W. P. Carey School of Business. The unique mission and identity of the Morrison School will be preserved, and all Morrison School tenured and tenure track faculty members will retain their positions. Current plans call for the Morrison School faculty and staff to continue to remain in their facilities on the Polytechnic campus.

The Fire Service Management program will be closed.

The Nursing program, which had previously been reduced from 80 to 40 students, will be moved to the Downtown campus.

West Campus

No graduate degree programs, including the W. P. Carey MBA, will be offered at West. Other changes include:

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences will be the lone remaining college at the West campus.

The Nursing program at West campus, which had previously been reduced from 80 to 40 students, will be moved to the Downtown campus for fall 2009.

The College of Teacher Education and Leadership will move Downtown, although undergraduate courses will continue to be taught on the West campus.

The School of Social work undergraduate and graduate programs now offered on the West campus will be moved to the Downtown campus and consolidated with that program.

Tempe Campus

The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering will reduce the number of academic units from 10 to six.

Old Units:

Harrington Department of Bioengineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering

School of Computing & Informatics: Department of Biomedical Informatics

School of Computing & Informatics: Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Del E. Webb School of Construction

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Industrial, Systems, and Operations Engineering

School of Materials

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

New Units:

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, which includes the Harrington program in bioengineering.

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, which includes the Del E. Webb School of Construction.

School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

School of Materials

School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

The Clinical Laboratory Sciences program will be closed. The W. P. Carey School’s MBA Sports Business Specialization will not be offered after the completion of the 2009-10 academic year.