STUDENTS
These are the most trying times for students at SF State in decades. Fees are higher than ever and class space is getting harder to come by. Here are some of the facts:
Student Fees: After a 32% increase in student fees last year to make them an all-time high of $4740 a year at SF State. There is a proposal of another 10% increase this year.
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.
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%.
Get Involved and Take Action!
Students are the shining stars of this University. You can help San Francisco 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 our region and to our state.
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Visit our Action Center to take 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 EBAC. These stories will be
included in a CSU report being sent to the California Legislature. Send your stories to Derek Aitken.
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