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Outreach Targeted for Elimination Governor Schwarzenegger
has proposed midyear cuts to the CSU current year budget in
the amount of $23.8M. The cuts allocate $12.5M in cuts specifically
to outreach, targeting CSU recruitment and outreach programs
for elimination. These programs are directed towards poor
students, potentially the first in their families to attend
college. Under the proposed cut to outreach, CSU's statewide
K-12 tutoring program would also disappear. UC recruitment
and outreach programs are similarly slated for elimination.
The state's 108 community colleges received no addition cuts.
According to the Sacramento Bee, Donna Arduin, Schwarzenegger's
finance director, commented on the higher education cuts by
stating that community colleges "have not been utilized
to the fullest extent possible to provide California students
with higher education" and observing that UC and CSU
are "relatively inexpensive for students, but not for
the taxpayers."
UC and CSU officials fear that should the governor's cuts
be approved by the legislature, African American, Latino and
American Indian students would suffer the most — they
are already underrepresented at 4-year campuses.
Both systems' outreach and recruitment programs already saw
their budgets halved in the current year budget.
About half of the CSU cuts of $23.8M are unallocated, and the Department of Finance has indicated it may be willing to make the entire $23.8M unallocated, to enable CSU administration to layoff employees whose contracts can keep them on the payroll 30-60 days or more after receiving notice.
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More News
Assembly Higher Education Committee Considers
Financing Options The Assembly Higher Education Committee
held hearings in September and October to explore financing
options for California's public institutions of higher education.
A third hearing set for December 9th will focus exclusively
on financing California's community college system. More»
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CHESS IX
CSSA will hold its California Higher Education Student Summit
(CHESS) February 20 - 23, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol
Park in Sacramento. The four-day conference, which focuses
on statewide public higher education, has several goals:
Education: To foster in students a greater understanding
of statewide higher education issues, policies, personalities,
and institutions;
Skill Building: To develop leadership qualities and organizational
skills;
Advocacy: To provide students the opportunity to lobby for
CSSA's higher education policy agenda;
Honors: To acknowledge distinguished alumni, outstanding
legislators, and exceptional student advocates;
Pride: To promote a sense of pride and esprit de corps within
and amongst CSU student organizations. More»
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Welcome!
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racing to a close finds CSSA already having accomplished much.
We have passed important resolutions and action plans pertaining
to parking fee equity, sustainability, and the CSU budget. We
have opened a dialogue with other CSU constituents on a long-term
student fee policy. We have performed an assessment of shared
governance practices on our campuses. And we are planning CHESS
IX, our major conference of the year, as well as a Cal State
Cares project that will place ASI volunteers in financial aid
workshops sponsored by state legislators to help high school
students complete financial aid application forms.
We hope that this e-newsletter, which will be distributed
the first of each month, will put us in touch with increasing
numbers of our 414,000 constituents, the students of this
great system of public higher education, the California State
University. I invite you to check our meeting schedule and
plan to join us at an upcoming conference in your area.
Meeting
Dates/Places
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Bob Linscheid takes pride in his long association with the
CSU. He was student president at Chico in 1975-76 and an active
member of CSSA-then called the California State Universities
and Colleges Student President Association (CSUCSPA). More»
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