September hits us with a load of events, as we find ourselves in the furlough-budget cuts' muck. Students at San Jose State find it terribly difficult to add classes, get enough units to be considered full time (and thus unable to received financial aid), not to mention, unable to acquire classes we actually need to graduate when departments will be punished for exceeding the cap of the classes. With a 10% cut to faculty wages, 32% overall increase in student fees at SJSU, and denying thousands of qualified freshmen admission...
See this PAIN Index 2009, compiled by Professor Scott Myers-Lipton, Sociology:
SJSU Pain Index 2009
O. Number of classes students can add in the Department of Sociology.
1.8. Percent of California budget going to higher education in 2009.
3.1. Percent of California budget going to higher education 2008.
9.23. Percent reduction in each SJSU faculty salary (also took away 12% raise from a few years ago).
18. Number of State mandated furlough days CSU faculty forced to take this year.
32. Percent increase to student fees in 2009.
42. Million dollar reduction in State contribution towards SJSU budget.
182. Percent increase in SJSU fees from 2002 to 2009.
200. Number of SJSU faculty terminated in fall 2009.
550. Dollar amount for CSU fees for academic year in 1988.
900. Dollar increase in SJSU fees in 2009.
2,500. Fewer students at SJSU in 2010.
3,000. Fewer students at SJSU in 2009.
4, 827. Dollar amount for CSU fees.
40,000. Fewer students at CSU fees for academic year in 2009.
585,000,000. Dollar reduction in school funding this year in CSU budget.
And yet the Federal Gov. has now given around $2 trillion total to companies like GM and AIG.
If this makes you angry please contact:
Governor Arnold Sxhwarzenegger
email, go to: http://gov.ca.gov/interact
(916) 445-2841
Chancellor, CSU, Dr. Charles Reed
publicaffairs@calstate.edu
(562) 951-4700
State Assembly member Joe Coto
Assemblymember.Coto@assemb
(408) 277-1220
State Senator Elaine Alquist
(408) 286-8318
Senator.Alquist@senate.ca.
You can also join the SJSU club Students For Quality Education (sjsu.sqe@gmail.com)
to join together with other students to fight budget cuts.
To take action, join SQE to deliver over 1,000 complaint forms to the Provost office. They are meeting this Wednesday September 9th at the Tommie Smith and John Carlos statues in front of Clark Hall at 2 pm. Also, SQE meetings are Mondays, 4:30 pm at the CFA Office in Building Q, Room #6 (behind the ATM's).
We created a budget cuts timeline for the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center open house last Thursday:
And other upcoming events
Tuesday, September 8
History in the Making: Changes to the Court
Building BB room #203
10:30-11:00 light refreshments
11:00 am watch Live ceremony
View the formal investiture ceremony for 111th Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. Community dialogue to follow.
Wednesday, September 9
Community Connections Fair
7th Street Plaza
10:00am -1:30 pm
Meet local non-profits and learn about different community service opportunities...and get free ice cream from the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center booth!
*co-sponsored by the Center for Community Learning and Leadership
Friday, September 11
9/11 National Day for Service and Remembrance
9:00am -1:00pm
Various locations in the community--working on community garden plots from either 8-12 or 10-2. Email cccac@as.sjsu.edu
Wednesday, September 16
Dr. Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg
“The United States and Obama – a World View”
Engineering Auditorium 189
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 16
Speakers Series: 40 years of Chicano Movement in San Jose
Roosevelt Community Center
901 E. Santa Clara St., San José, 95116
6:00 pm-8:00pm
Donations NEEDED!!!
We are collecting new and used children’s costumes and Halloween accessories (masks, wings, wigs etc) to be distributed to kids in low-income communities. Our goal for the Center is to collect 100 costumes. Please help us in meeting this need. Donation bins will be
located in the 1st floor lobby of Building BB through October 14, 2009. (Gift cards and monetary donations also accepted during business hours)
For more information email us at cccac@as.sjsu.edu .
Leaders Needed: Alternative Spring Break
The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Program exposes SJSU students to diversity, cultural immersion, and political and economic differences in an alcohol and drug free environment during Spring Break. Students work side by side with local residents on grassroots projects to address critical, unmet needs on domestic and international service trips during spring break. The intensive cultural immersion and hands-on service exposes students to the realities of community development and promotes fuller comprehension of their place in the global community.
There are hard copy application in the office (BB Building #105). Team leader apps are due Sept 28. Program apps are due Oct 16.
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