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Proposed budget
asks for more
By Phil Witte
On-line Forty-Niner
The California
State University Chancellor's Office submitted the final budget
proposal to the Board of Trustees for the 2002-03 school year,
which calls for $269.1 million more than last year.
The total includes an increase of $245.4 million in General
Fund dollars, a 9.4 increase from last year, and an additional
$23.7 million in fee revenue resulting from increased enrollment.
The total proposed budget from CSU Chancellor Charles Reed's
office stands at $3.7 billion, and the CSU Board of Trustees
will hold its final vote on the budget during its meeting
today.
Most of the increase comes in response to the explosion of
students in the CSU system, estimated at 12,030 for 2002-03.
Studies from the California Postsecondary Education Commission
estimate that between 2000 and 2010, as many as 150,000 students
will enter the CSU system. Of the proposed budget increase,
$106.6 million is set to accommodate the four percent increase
in enrollment in full-time equivalent students.
The increase is earmarked for hiring new teachers and providing
advising, counseling, financial aid, and student services
to accommodate for the increase in students, according to
CSU Spokeswoman Colleen Bentley-Adler.
The budget also calls for an $89.5 million compensation increase
for CSU employees, which is less than the 6 percent requested
by the CSU.
The budget also summarized the CSU faculty lag, reported annually
by CPEC. The gap for the 2001-02 school was 5.9 percent, the
fifth time in the last six years the number was greater than
5 percent.
"While money is important, it is not the central issue
that we are addressing," said Martin Fiebert, Cal State
Long Beach chapter president of the California Faculty Association.
"The trend in the last 10 years of hiring a contingent
work force rather than full-time professors is a dynamic that
is not good for students."
The budget also takes full advantage of the Partnership Agreement
the CSU signed with Gov. Gray Davis last May. Under the terms
of the agreement, the CSU gets increased funding from the
state executive if certain educational goals are met.
Of the revenue increase this year, $129 million of the General
Fund increase comes from Partnership funding.
The budget also calls for an increase of $10.9 million in
health-care benefits administered by the California Employees'
Retirement System.
Reed's goal of providing funding for statewide year-round
operations is also represented in the budget. The budget proposal
asks for an additional $10.8 million for the program.
"Having the summer session state-supported makes it affordable
and accessible for students," Bentley-Adler said. "This
past summer enrollment in the summer was up 50 percent."
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