FACULTY AND STAFF
The State Legislature and Governor recently passed a budget that had devastating effects at San Francisco State. Some of the facts:
Size of the budget cut: The California legislature (including all of the Bay Area members) and the Governor cut nearly $38 million of SF State's General Revenue funding -- reducing it from $166.7 million to $128.7 -- and imposed new unfunded mandatory costs of $9.5 million.
Layoffs: With every area of the University taking its share of the funding cut, we have managed – just barely -- to stabilize our budget for the semester. We are all, quite naturally, concerned about the possibility of layoffs as we face a very uncertain spring semester. While we cannot issue “no layoff” guarantees, given the unpredictable nature of the state budget scene, we can say that there are no plans currently in place for the layoff of tenured or tenure-track faculty, nor is it our intention to lay off permanent staff this year in units taking furloughs.
Lecturers: The total number of lecturers has decreased by 401 (145 FTEF). Moreover a large number of those who remain are teaching fewer courses, sometimes losing critical health and other benefits.
Workload: Class load has increased, class size has gone up, and assigned time has decreased.
Loss of class sections: 339 sections had to be cut from our fall 2008 total of 3.164.
Enrollment: 24,620 full-time equivalent students (FTES) -- down, as the Chancellor's Office has ordered, from last fall. Because we are not admitting new students for the spring, we expect to have about 2,000 fewer students on campus. Our enrollment target for the 2010-11 academic year has been lowered by 10.8%.
How You Can Help
Faculty and staff are the shining stars of this University. You can help San Francisco State University and the California State University at this critical time by being the voice of SF State -- to let California’s legislators know how this University has made a difference to you, to your students, to our region and to our state.
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Visit our Action Center to send a special message to the Governor.
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You can also write an Op-ed to your local newspaper.
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Contribute stories that illustrate the impact of budget cuts on
your program and students to Buckley Barrett of the Statewide Academic
Senate (bbarett@csusb.edu) and Alice Sunshine of the California Faculty
Association (cutshaveconsequences@calfac.org). These stories will be
included in a CSU report being sent to the California Legislature.
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