NOTE:
The following e-mail message was sent by President Robert A. Corrigan
to SFSU faculty and staff on August 27, 2004.
Dear Colleagues:
Since
my last budget message, we have received our final 2004-05 budget from
the Chancellor's Office, and with it, a welcome infusion of $3,862,200
in general fund monies -- some $500,000 more than we had been told
to anticipate. As I mentioned in my speech to the faculty last Monday,
we are now able to close the major gaps with which we were starting
the year and, I am pleased to report, to restore some items that had
been
cut.
In Academic
Affairs, we have restored approximately $1.13 million to classroom
instruction. This reduces the lecturer cut from $1.8 million to about
$668,000 and ensures that we have as many classroom seats this fall
as last. We have restored the classroom renovation budget of some $245,000.
We also have been able to increase the budget for library acquisitions,
instructional equipment, instructional operating expense, and Audio
Visual enhancements. Finally, we have eliminated the $800,000 unallocated
reduction that Academic Affairs had faced. Deferred maintenance has
regained its $1 million allocation, thus avoiding a downward spiral
of delay and consequent damage.
As we start
a new academic year, I hope that you share my spirit of optimism
and pride in this University. I look forward to another year of collegial
and constructive work together.
-- Robert A. Corrigan, president
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