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A New Compact
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed, and UC President Robert C. Dynes
have arrived at a behind-the-scenes budget compromise—a new six-year “compact” that will restore some
funding for growth of the two institutions beginning in 2005-2006 and for outreach and academic
preparation programs that had been slated for elimination in the Governor's January budget.
The deal harkens back to the compact of the Wilson administration, which was later recast as the
“partnership” in the Davis administration. They offered a measure of protection in the form of minimum
thresholds of support for enrollment growth and other core needs.
The CSU and UC have agreed to accept the roughly $700 million in additional cuts to the two systems
that Gov. Schwarzenegger proposed in his January budget. Roughly half of those cuts would be offset
through higher student fees, should the governing bodies of the two institutions vote to support the
compact and institute the fee increases it spells out.
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Greenpeace and EarthFirst! at
Chancellor’s Office A small group of ReNew CSU students were privileged to meet John
Passacantando, Greenpeace USA executive director, and Mike Roselle, EarthFirst! founder, recently at
the Chancellor's Office. The two came to Long Beach to congratulate the students on their campaign and
underscore the importance of its sustainability and renewable-energy goals in the battle against global
warming.
John was eloquent about the necessity of engaging the problem of global warming:
“Why does it matter? This is more important than all the wars we oppose. Global warming is changing
everything—it is spitting in the face of grace. It's effecting polar bears and driving island peoples
from their homes, and so much more. It's introducing infectious diseases to places they've never been
seen before. If we reverse global warming we can heal, but we must start now. It will take 100 years to
reverse the damage already done. What we know is that at a certain CO 2 level climate will cease to
support and connect life systems. We don't know when the switch will be tripped—tomorrow or a hundred
years from now. The challenge is that we're in a race against time. This is the case with all social
issues; it's just that this one can do irreparable harm. Climate is an angry beast and we continue to
poke it with sticks.”
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Redirected Freshmen Offered Upper-Division Transfer to the CSU The CSU has announced that it
will offer a “deferred admission agreement” for guaranteed transfer from the state's community college
system to 3,800 eligible applicants who were denied admission as first-time freshmen to eight CSU
campuses for fall 2004.
The students met CSU admission requirements. They were turned away purely because of budget cuts, which
in turn resulted in enrollment reductions. The campuses from which the students were excluded are the
Chico, Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos, and Sonoma campuses.
Some of these are “impacted” campuses, meaning more eligible students apply than can be accommodated.
The system has allowed impacted campuses to apply tougher admission standards to students out of their
local areas. Some of the rejected students failed to meet the heightened standards; some were eliminated
by their date of application.
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Joan Retires !
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Joan Hemphill came to CSSA having already worked six years at the Chancellor's Office, five of them in the Office
of General Counsel and one in the Division of University Advancement. After nearly three years at CSSA as director
of university affairs, she will retire on July 9 th in order to spend more time with ailing members of her family.
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Last year Young Kim was director of statewide affairs for the Fullerton ASI and a CSSA board member. This year he's a
graduate student at Columbia University being plied with offers from the London School of Economics, the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and NYU to continue his doctoral studies in policy analysis in higher education at those
institutions.
Young says his experience in ASI at Fullerton has helped him immensely in his graduate work. While his
peers at Columbia are great researchers and understand the dynamics between legislatures and public
universities, few of them know how those universities run from the inside, and few of them have
experienced the opportunities of self-governance and business ownership provided by many CSU
associated students organizations.
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