What is happening? 

In 2024 CSU management hired high-priced consultants to put together a systemwide strategic plan. We know that CSU management continues their decades of budget mismanagement and misuse of funds while claiming a tuition increase is necessary for their financial sustainability. Repeatedly there’s never any money to fairly compensate faculty and staff for their tireless dedication to student success and always a made-up budget hole to justify unfair costs to students. 

In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced early in January 2025 deep cuts to faculty, staff, and instructional and support programs. This is now a rippling effect across campuses in the Cal state system.  

The proposed cuts, department and program eliminations, and faculty job loss are not inevitable. Chancellor Garcia and the Board of Trustees can reverse these changes and demonstrate leadership that privileges students, instruction, academic and educational integrity. 

We will not stand by and watch entire campuses, and its academic and educational mission left unrecognizable. Faculty, students and staff are joining forces to fight back. Cutting courses and programs is a direct attack on student success by increasing class sizes, expanding faculty workload, and reducing support programs that help student achieve, particularly first-generation and immigrant students, and those from marginalized communities. Students are paying more and getting less. 

We live with the consequences of their poor decision-making, and now is the time to communicate truth to power. 

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Chancellor García: Negotiate in Good Faith, Get Back to the Table

Every day, we are encountering relentless attacks on higher education from all corners. We’ve seen attempts to eliminate the federal Department of Education, the cancellation of NSF grants, the gutting of health and medical research, attacks on DEI, and major cuts to education funding here in California. Management’s intransigence further worsens the conditions of our public education system, and it is largely due to their contempt for shared governance and faculty work. This current stall in the process is not about technicalities and esoteric union rules—it is about meeting with management as co-equals in a structured manner to give faculty their right to have a say in their working conditions. In this moment, it is more important than ever to be in community. We are all CFA, and we all have a stake in what happens next.
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Tell the CSU Administration: Hands off Students!

On February 20, 2025, CSUSM students and community members staged a series of nonviolent direct actions to disrupt the Social Mobility Symposium, on our campus, as part of their campaign to declare CSUSM a sanctuary campus. Ironically, this symposium was organized to “advance social mobility and develop solutions that empower students.” Instead, our campus was hyper-militarized and super-surveilled through an increased police presence, with the calling in of officers from neighboring campuses and precincts, as well as private security forces.

One week later, on Friday, February 28, student leaders and organization presidents received individual and organizational referrals and summons to disciplinary hearings from the Dean of Students Office and the Student Leadership and Involvement Center, in direct reference to this day of action.

These disciplinary actions make CSUSM the first campus in the CSU system to take such aggressive action towards this many students and organizations at once. Furthermore, these actions go against CSUSM’s Diversity, Social Justice & Equity values which highlight the “strive for the realization of educational equity and the promoting of a fair and open environment for the respectful exchange of ideas.” Click here to Sign the petition.

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