Washington — The District of Columbia’s only public university plans to change its open-door policy and split into two schools, a four-year college with admissions standards and an open-enrollment community college, The Washington Post reported today.

The University of the District of Columbia’s president, Allen L. Sessoms, has said it needs big changes and called the graduation rate — 16 percent graduate within eight years — “an abomination.”

Mr. Sessoms, who has tangled with the faculty in the few months since he took office, has suggested admissions criteria of a 2.5 GPA and 1200 SAT or a 2.0 GPA and a 1400 SAT for four-year students.

The plan, which has been endorsed by the university’s trustees, also calls for changes in tuition, which is now about $3,800 for District residents. Tuition for four-year students would be raised to $7,000 for District residents and $14,000 for everyone else, while the community college would have a tuition of $3,000.

The changes are needed to provide more revenue for the university, Mr. Sessoms said.

Some students plan to pitch tents on the campus and boycott classes to protest the proposed changes, the Post reported.

University officials are looking for a site for the proposed community college. —Beckie Supiano