Join the coalition of CSU Dominguez Hills faculty, staff and students at the CSU Board of Trustees' meeting July 19 where they will continue to fight against $2.5 million in budget cuts to the campus 2006/07 budget.
At the next CSU Board of Trustees meeting July 19 in Long Beach, CFA representatives and faculty will be supporting the Dominguez Hills Coalition of students, staff and faculty who brought the enrollment and budget plight of their campus to the attention of the Trustees on May 17 with their “Keep Hope Alive” presentation.
Dominguez Hills Solidarity Day will coincide with an anticipated report on enrollment and budget problems at several CSU campuses, including Dominguez Hills. The report was requested by Trustee Melinda Guzman Moore at the May meeting.
Guzman Moore was responding to a presentation by the Dominguez Hills Coalition on how calculations of full-time equivalent students, rather than head count, are starving that campus to the tune of $2.5 million. Dominguez Hills has by far the heaviest concentration of African American students as well as a high percentage of Latinos.
CFA notes that the enrollment crisis afflicting CSUDH is also creeping into the numbers at other campuses with high numbers of part-time students—notably Los Angeles and East Bay. Further, not recognizing and accounting for the phenomenon of working students (which has been made worse by CSU budget cuts and student fee hikes) only exacerbates this hurtful cycle.
“We’re pleased that some Trustees have requested comprehensive information on this problem,” said David Bradfield, president of the CFA Dominguez Hills Chapter and the union’s Associate Vice President, South. “And we’ll be there to talk further about it and to make sure the information they receive is full and accurate.”
