San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2008
Willie Brown, Open Forum Letter
Don't close the door on California's economic future
I know from experience that during tough budget times, the pressure is on state leaders to cut funding for higher education, and to raise student fees. As a state legislator, speaker of the California Assembly, and trustee of both the California State University and the University of California systems, I faced several budget crises.
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June 19, 2008
Letters to the Editor
Letters: Restore CSU funding
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San Diego Union Tribune, June 5, 2008
Pat Sherman
Tutoring program gives foster children a leg up
For children in the foster care system, traumatic loss and endless transition too often derail their education.
John Halcon, a professor in the College of Education at Cal State San Marcos, recalled the story of a 10-year-old foster child who came home from school to find his foster parents had placed all of his belongings on the lawn in black plastic bags. They were getting a divorce.
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Ventura County Star, May 18, 2008
Lillian Taiz, Editorial
Does California have what it takes?
About 90,000 students will graduate from the 23 campuses of the California State University over the next few weeks. As they seek work, debate over the state budget will intensify. Part of that debate includes the future of the state university system, and the fate of the millions of future students it might — or might not — serve.
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LA Daily News, May 18, 2008
Connie Llanos
Students paying the price in shaky economy
Michael Gallin's major at UCLA may be African-American studies, but it might as well be finance. The undergraduate already walks or bikes to school to save on gas.
He photocopies textbooks to cut expenses.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, May 13, 2008
Sherry Saavedra and Tanya Sierra
As California weighs increases, private schools offering breaks
Ivy League and other elite colleges may soon be cheaper for some of the state's top students than California's public universities.
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Sacramento Bee, April 23, 2008
Peter Schrag, Opinion Piece
California colleges: A case of autopilot degradation
Old news: Like most other major state programs, California's public universities and colleges are up against devastating budget cuts in the coming year, and probably longer. Those cuts will drive up fees, force larger classes and eliminate courses, services and programs.
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April 22, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, others
Roundup of news coverage of student protest at Capitol
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, April 9, 2008
Editorial
University cuts hurt our future
Cal Poly Pomona President Michael Ortiz made the salient point at Tuesday's rally on the university campus: Elected officials must understand "what drives the economic engine of the state of California is the CSU."
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San Jose Mercury News, April 3, 2008
Leslie Griffy and Dana Hull
Cal State Fullerton protests proposed cuts
California State University campuses could be forced to reject 10,000 qualified students, offer fewer courses, put off maintenance and lay off lecturers if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts for the system become reality, activists said Wednesday.
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Ventura County Reporter & Camarillo Acorn, April 3, 2008
Michelle Knight & Hannah Guzik
Alliance protests governor's proposed budget cuts
Chanelle Timmons may have to get a second job . . . again.
Timmons, 19, worked two jobs while taking a full load of classes at California State University Channel Islands last year. This year the sophomore cut back on work to take 18 units and depends on grants, one part-time job and the loan her parents took out on their Northern California home to pay the bills.
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Long Beach Press-Telegram, March 27, 2008
Kevin Butler
CSULB speaks out
About 2,000 students, staff, faculty and local elected officials gathered at Cal State Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon to protest budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speakers, including CSULB President F. King Alexander and Long Beach City Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, warned the audience gathered near the University Bookstore that the proposed $313 million cut to the CSU system would hurt students and the state's economy.
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Orange County Register, March 26, 2008
Scott Martindale
Cal State Fullerton protests proposed cuts
In response to an anticipated $18.1 million budget shortfall at Cal State Fullerton this fall, faculty and student leaders said Tuesday that the campus must rally to save an educational institution that contributes more to the economy than it takes away.
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Los Angeles Wave, March 26, 2008
Leiloni De Gruy
Cutting to the bone
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts at California State University campuses have faculty, staff, students and alumni throughout the state up in arms. And that is especially true at the Cal State Dominguez Hills campus here.
“Students, especially minorities, attend CSUs because they’re cheaper,” said Shyrella Wilson, a Cal State Dominguez Hills graduate. “If fees continue to rise, there will be less people of color getting an education. Cal States are the epicenter for diversity and that will be ruined.”
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Eureka Reporter, March 25, 2008
Carol Harrison
Overflow crowd joins rally to fight against CSU budget cuts
Approximately 500 faculty, staff, students and community members packed the Kate Buchanan Room at Humboldt State University Monday to rally against state plans to enact a budget that could leave the Arcata campus with a $7.3 million deficit.
They filled the seats, sat on the floor, stood five rows deep in the back of the room and spilled into the hallway to hear a series of speakers implore them to take the budget crisis in Sacramento personally and to take direct action by contacting the governor and state lawmakers.
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San Bernardino Sun, March 21, 2008
Editorial
We must invest in our future
OUR VIEW: Cal State San Bernardino and other colleges and universities are economic drivers, not drains on the state budget.
Cal State San Bernardino President Al Karnig hit the proverbial nail on the head with his assertion that higher education is not the cause of the state's budget deficit.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 21, 2008
Sherry Saavedra
900 rally at SDSU to protest CSU's expected budget cuts
Looming budget cuts will mean larger class sizes and fewer students admitted to San Diego State University, participants in a campus rally declared yesterday.
Students, staff members and administrators are holding rallies on campuses throughout the California State University system to fight Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts, which would mean a reduction of $386 million from what CSU trustees say they need for 2008-09.
More than 900 people turned out for the rally outside Scripps Cottage at SDSU.
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Capitol Weekly, March 20, 2008
Alexander Gonzalez, President CSU Sacramento
Education cuts will hurt the state in the long run
In my 29 years with California State University, I have never seen the type of unity and determination that has swept the Sacramento State campus, and indeed the entire CSU system, since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s January proposal to cut $386 million from our budget next year.
In most times, disagreements between administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni, labor, and the community are the norm. They naturally occur and we deal with them as best we can. But when our very purpose, and all the good work we do, are suddenly at risk, we band together and act as one.
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Modesto Bee, March 20, 2008
Eve Hightower
CSU students, faculty, staff protest cuts
There's something about loss, even the threat of loss, that brings people together. It was Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposed $312.9 million cut to the California State University system's budget that united students, faculty and staff in protest at the CSU Stanislaus campus Wednesday.
It was a monumental moment for the group, which has never united like this before, said staff union President Frank Borrelli. Though unique, it was an easy alliance -- and one that is being repeated statewide at CSU campuses.
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Sacramento Bee, March 18, 2008
Bill Lindelof
CSUS president warns on effects of California budget cuts
Students, faculty, staff and administrators Tuesday packed a Sacramento State theater to hear speakers encourage them to lobby legislators in an attempt to prevent proposed cuts to the California State University system.
Diverse campus factions came together to speak against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $386 million budget reduction proposal for the 23-campus university system.
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KOVR CBS 13, March 16, 2008
Elyce Kirchner
Sacramento State Protest budget cuts
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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 16, 2008
Dean Calbreath
Education budget cuts barge into S.D. forums
There was more than a little irony last week as more than 400 local civic leaders, business executives, politicians, bureaucrats and educators gathered at the Convention Center to discuss ways that San Diego County could better prepare its residents for the 21st-century job market.
One of the key topics at the Workforce Summit 2008, organized by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, was education, including a 90-minute panel discussion on “Education and the Future Workforce: Does It Add Up?”
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March 17, 2008
Media Coverage Roundup
View the extensive media coverage from last weeks All-Campus Budget Fight back meetings held throughout the state.
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Station KFMB San Diego, March 11, 2008
CSU San Marcos Students And Staff Discuss Cuts
The Cal State university system is looking at $386 million being slashed from its budget, meaning drastic cuts at San Diego State and here at Cal State San Marcos, where educators, students and staff are not going down without a fight.
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SignonSanDiego.com, March 11, 2008
Students, staff gather to fight Cal State system budget cuts
Higher fees, reduced access and bigger class sizes are potential outcomes of the proposed budget cuts to higher education, according to administrators, staff and students who gathered yesterday at Cal State San Marcos.
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Daily Breeze, March 4, 2008
Shelly Leachman
Group pummels proposed cuts to CSUs
A new statewide campaign to protest proposed budget cuts to the California State University system was launched locally Monday at its Dominguez Hills campus.
In the first such gathering of more to come, some 300 people assembled to ignite the efforts of the "Alliance for the CSU."
The fledgling grass-roots group - a rare cooperation of faculty, administrators, staff and students - aims to erase from the governor's draft budget a $386 million reduction in funding to the 23-campus system.
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KNBC, March 4, 2008
CSU budget cuts protested
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La Opinión, March 2, 2008
Araceli Martínez Ortega
Más enemigos contra los recortes
Al tiempo que los estudiantes de la Universidad de California protestaban en Sacramento, en el campus de Domínguez Hills de la Universidad Estatal de California se iniciaba una jornada de manifestaciones por todo el estado que culminará el 2 de abril.
Mildred García, presidenta del campus Domínguez Hills de la CSU, dijo que la propuesta será devastadora. "El recorte para nosotros es de seis millones de dólares, porque en las reducciones anteriores nos quitaron 2.8 millones y para el próximo otoño serían 3.2 millones o más", explicó García ante la audiencia reunida en el campus.
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