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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:49 AM
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California Faculty Association to vote on CSU furlough proposal....
* UPDATED * FAQ ON CSU FURLOUGH REQUEST * UPDATED *
(Last updated 7.10.09)
Like the hundreds of CSU faculty members who have communicated with CFA over the past few weeks,
the CFA Board of Directors and Chapter leaders are deeply frustrated with the Chancellor’s handling of
the CSU budget crisis and the furlough issue, in particular.

This updated FAQ addresses the faculty’s most commonly asked questions about the Chancellor’s
proposal and includes NEW information about the upcoming vote.

The CFA Board of Directors has taken no position on the furlough proposal as presented to CFA.

more@link: http://www.calfac.org/allpdf/Budget_09_10/FAQ_onfurlough_0710.pdf


California's budget problems have been slowly cannibalizing what was arguably the world's finest higher education system for much of the last decade, and this latest crisis threatens to consume irretrievable components. Like many aspects of this mismanaged state, the three tiered higher ed system in California is dependent upon a dysfunctional legislative budgetary process.

Economic forecasts show that expenditures in higher education are not costs, per se, but rather are lucrative investments. In California, the economic return to the state's coffers is nearly $4.50 for every dollar spent on higher ed, so reducing the already starved-to-the-bone budget by a further 20 percent is clearly self-cannibalism, and will dramatically accelerate the state's spiraling fiscal problems.

My colleagues and I will vote on this latest management proposal over the next week or so. I don't know how the vote will go, frankly. I don't hear much support for the administration's plan for dealing with this latest crisis, largely because the "plan" is unspecified, the furloughs will only make a dent in the overall budget shortfall-- making layoffs likely anyway, management is not enthusiastic about sharing the pain with faculty and staff, and finally-- and perhaps most important, in the end-- we have already sacrificed much during the last several years, including the arbitrary withholding of our most recent negotiated pay increases. I'm not hearing much enthusiasm for this latest "plan" from the colleagues I've talked to.

Cross posted to the California forum.

Solidarity!
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:00 AM
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1. the students have likewise sacrificed, with constant tuition increases
and thus more indebtedness, and little in the way of "returns" from the institutions constantly raising their fees...
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:04 AM
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2. the Chancellor is proposing an additional 15-20 percent fee increase...
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 11:07 AM by mike_c
...for next year, along with enrollment reductions of about 40,000 students. This is in the CSU-- I don't know what the UC and community college systems are proposing. But the CSU is getting hit HARD. It's hard for me to imagine the CSU turning away 40,000 qualified Californians!

on edit: I don't think a lot of people understand that the compact for education in this state once made explicit the goal of providing access to higher ed at the lowest possible cost to the greatest possible number of students, especially in the CSU. That compact is being shredded today.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:57 AM
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4. well, exactly. I'm a UC grad, but have no idea if I'd want my sons to go there, now...
Which is a shame, because once upon a time, I wouldn't have been hesitant to let 'em know how great it was! (And, sadly, I guess it's the "past tense" that's critical here...)
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:09 AM
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3. I remember being at San Simeon in Oct. of 2000

The rates to go in to the Hearst Castle had just dropped. The guide told us Ca. was floating in money. This is some turnaround!

Solidarity for all the Ca. workers.

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