2008 Woodie Awards
EDITORIAL: Options for students to get involved
Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: Opinion
Getting involved isn't the easiest thing to do. It is definitely not the easiest thing to get people to do. As diverse as the college campus may be, we all speak the same language when it comes to our money.
Like it or not, with current proposals in place, each and every member of the campus community will see how these budget cuts personally affect them. Increased prices of parking permits will soon be the least of our worries.
While the increased permit fees will go to use-in theory, the increase in tuition fees only serve to alleviate the cuts to the CSU system. According to Budget Central, CSUSM gets 85% of its revenue from State of California appropriation and State University fees. That same source mentions that the University Budget Committee (UBC) is in charge of deciding how CSUSM will allocate reductions.
Each of the five campus divisions (President's Office, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, University Advancement, and Finance and Administrative Services) have been asked to take an 8.15% reduction from their fiscal year 2007-08 permanent revenue.
As luck would have it, the state finalizes the proposed cuts during summer break. Although the Governor has to touch up his proposal in May and the finance committees have until June 1 to finalize a bill, similar situations rarely render results by the appointed deadline.
If that is the case, we may not know for certain what the final budget is until early fall. The issue is not what is going on but whether anything can be done to change it. The overwhelming majority on campus agrees that this situation is awful.
What does this all mean?
What can I do about it?
Where can I find out more?
Visit www.allianceforthecsu.org and www.csusm.edu/plan/budgetcentral for anything and everything you need to know.
Candidates of the presidential primaries have sold promises of change as a theme for the campaign trail. If change is, in fact, the answer-it has to begin at the grassroots. CSU may be the solution but students are the driving force of that solution. Instead of putting the issue on the back burner until fall (when it will be too late to contest it), students need to infiltrate in full force-volunteering, making phone calls, sending letters.
…by any means necessary.
Like it or not, with current proposals in place, each and every member of the campus community will see how these budget cuts personally affect them. Increased prices of parking permits will soon be the least of our worries.
While the increased permit fees will go to use-in theory, the increase in tuition fees only serve to alleviate the cuts to the CSU system. According to Budget Central, CSUSM gets 85% of its revenue from State of California appropriation and State University fees. That same source mentions that the University Budget Committee (UBC) is in charge of deciding how CSUSM will allocate reductions.
Each of the five campus divisions (President's Office, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, University Advancement, and Finance and Administrative Services) have been asked to take an 8.15% reduction from their fiscal year 2007-08 permanent revenue.
As luck would have it, the state finalizes the proposed cuts during summer break. Although the Governor has to touch up his proposal in May and the finance committees have until June 1 to finalize a bill, similar situations rarely render results by the appointed deadline.
If that is the case, we may not know for certain what the final budget is until early fall. The issue is not what is going on but whether anything can be done to change it. The overwhelming majority on campus agrees that this situation is awful.
What does this all mean?
What can I do about it?
Where can I find out more?
Visit www.allianceforthecsu.org and www.csusm.edu/plan/budgetcentral for anything and everything you need to know.
Candidates of the presidential primaries have sold promises of change as a theme for the campaign trail. If change is, in fact, the answer-it has to begin at the grassroots. CSU may be the solution but students are the driving force of that solution. Instead of putting the issue on the back burner until fall (when it will be too late to contest it), students need to infiltrate in full force-volunteering, making phone calls, sending letters.
…by any means necessary.
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C3Resident
posted 3/30/08 @ 11:16 AM PST
I calculate that the other departments will do the same as SLL and vacate positions in order to meet the "8.15% reduction from their fiscal year 2007-08 permanent revenue"
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