While hundreds of faculty, students, and CSU advocates have written Gov. Brown, urging him to sign critical legislation improving access for students to mental health services, more messages still are needed.
Throughout the state, CFA members are walking precincts, calling voters, and helping others register or re-register to vote in an effort to help elect political leaders who prioritize public higher education.
As the mother of slain Humboldt State student David Josiah Lawson made her third appeal to CSU Trustees at today’s meeting, faculty and students stood arm-in-arm behind her, echoing her call for the Board to use its leverage to help solve the crime and improve campus safety.
CFA leaders questioned the CSU administration’s budgetary priorities during the Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, which focused on education policy and finance.
Do you find election-time engaging? Has our country’s political climate made you decide now is the time to do something? Then, CFA has opportunities for you to take political action.
Dr. La Tanya Skiffer spends four hours a week in advising sessions with her students at CSU Dominguez Hills. Intermingled with discussions about course work for her criminology courses, Skiffer learns about their lives.
Inspired by an engaging and instructive discussion at CFA’s August Kickoff, the Radio Free CSU podcast this week focuses on the “Race-Class Narrative to Unite Working People.”
CFA Members who have been affected by wildfires in California can seek help through relief funds set up by CFA affiliates—the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the California Teachers Association (CTA).
READ ALL ABOUT IT: A recent article by Meg K. Guliford in The Washington Post provides first-person perspective on how racism permeates academia and links to an article on cultural taxation by Cecil Canton, CFA’s Associate VP of Affirmative Action North.
CSU counselors will be at several campuses in the coming week, encouraging faculty and staff to send emails to Gov. Brown urging him to sign legislation that would improve student mental health services in the CSU.
The Legislature passed SB 968, authored by Sen. Richard Pan, which would increase the number of counselors on CSU campuses. It is currently awaiting the governor’s signature. The professional recommended ratio is one counselor per 1,500 students. Currently, the ratio on CSU campuses is far higher, in some cases as much as one counselor per 3,000 students.
POLITICAL GAIN: It may be the beginning of September, but CFA activists already are taking political action in preparation for the Nov. 6 General Election.
Last week, CFA members at campuses across the CSU recruited dozens of colleagues to participate in phone banking, hall walking, and other activities to support candidates who value public higher education and hold fast to principles of racial and social justice.
With California set to elect a new Governor who will decide the 2019-2020 state funding for the California State University system, Faculty to ramp up advocacy efforts and call for Trustees to fight aggressively for badly needed funds for the People’s University
CSU Board of Trustees to meet in Long Beach, Sept. 11-12
Long Beach, CA— While September brings fresh energy from students and faculty back to California State University campuses, it also marks the beginning of the crucial budget process for the 2019-2020 school year.
