Organize To Defend Education At Cal State Fullerton

Organize to Defend Education at Cal State Fullerton Bad decisions Why is the gym open at night, but not the library? Why are libraries at other CSUs open at night, but not at Cal State Fullerton? It’s because the people who decide how to allocate funds on this campus have not made education their priority. When the Cal State Fullerton administration isn’t denying that it makes any bad decisions, it likes to shift all responsibility away from itself by claiming that it only “implements orders from above.” It wants you to believe that all important budgetary decisions are made only in Sacramento by the CSU headquarters and the State Legislature, but this isn’t true. Administrators on this campus also make budgetary decisions, and in doing so millions of dollars have been misspent while classes have been cancelled and teachers with poor salaries have been laid off. Clear demands The reason the Cal State Fullerton administration has been able to act this way is because no one has held it responsible. The problems at Cal State Fullerton are certainly connected to the bigger problems of the CSU system, the state, the nation and capitalism as a whole, but don’t let this become an alibi for the administration. We can’t ignore what happens here and what we can do about it now. How can we save classes next semester at Cal State Fullerton? How can we get the library to reopen at night? How can we get the administration to act in the best interests of students and teachers? By getting them to listen to us — not with solitary letters, but with a clear collective voice. The Vice President of Administration and Finance Willie Hagan has identified who the decision makers are when it comes to allocating resources on this campus: President Milton Gordon, Vice President of Academic Affairs Ephraim Smith, the other Vice Presidents (there are a lot of them), the Deans of the Colleges, the Department Chairs, and the administrators and faculty members on the Planning, Resource and Budget Committee. These people need to hear from us:

ADD CLASSES, DON’T CUT THEM REOPEN THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT A BUSINESS