1993_01 The Daily Collegian January 1993

              WcaJncatfcy, Jan. 27, 4993
The Daily Collegian
Features — 3
Appraisal Committee sets guidelines
Evaluation group
to focus^6*h major,
general education
academic programs
ByClndy Starblrd
Staffwriter
TlieCaliforniaState University
system is battling a wave of finan¬
cial cutbacks and reductions that
are having a tremendous effect
upon CSUF.
In September, the Academic
Senate approved the formation of
the Academic Program Appraisal
Committee toevaluateall academic
programs at thejmiversity.
Each school is currently con¬
ducting evaluations of all of its
programs to be submitted to the
Appraisal Committee by Feb. 19.
The evaluations will be used by the
committee to determine which
courses, programs or majors will
be eliminated.
The commiitee will prepare two
sets of recommendations based
upon two fiscal situations. The first
assumes each school will receive
the same allocations as for the
1992-1993 school year. The sec¬
ond assumes each school will re¬
ceive 5 percent fewer dollars.
"Courses and programs which
are not essential (therefore, central
and critical to the major and to
general, education) and that have
existed primarily to generate en¬
rollment (hence resources) for the
unit, cannot be valued as highly as
essential courses and programs,"
said President John Welty in a
memorandum to W. Ronald Perry,
chair of the Academic Senate, dated
Dec. 7.1992.
In addition to the cutbacks re¬
sulting from the budget crisis, in
the next few years the university
will be experiencing a change in
theway it is budgeted.
"In the future, unlike the past,
there is no assurance that our bud¬
get will be generated solely by
student-enrollment demand,"
Welty said. "What appears more
likely is that the university will be
provided with a resource alloca¬
tion to serve a specific number of
students and a general charge to
provide quality education to the
people of the region."
This means that the university
will be offering fewer classes with
fewer professors, and not admit¬
ting as many students into them as
before.
Many students trying to add
classes this semester have already
felt the consequences of these cut¬
backs.
" Graduating seniors are about the
only ones who have a chance to
add classes, and even then, their
chances are slim.
"Since it is unlikely under these
new circumstances that all student-
course demand will be satisfied.
FASK FORCE GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Guiding principles in (He Tank Force's mission to "preaerjx the
focus on'tbe campus as a conprebensh-e regional uniratisty''
indude:
• redefining the educational mission without regard to the present
structure and with an objective of continuous improvement
• makingohanges that maintain or increase quality
• consolidating materials in order to eliminate at all levels
• cornmittiiig to overall diversity on campus
• making instruction the first priority in allocating resources
• expanding revenue-generating activates
• being open and fair, and fully consulting those affected in the
decision-making process  '■_
•- identifying and rewarding program effeciency
• committing to manured faculty and retaining personnel
• committing to asense of "university community"
we must focus on quality and es¬
sentials rather than ... being per¬
haps overly concerned about en¬
rollment," Welty said.
"In this new'environment,
across-the-board cuts are not ap-
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propriate; we must instead con¬
centrate on program elimination,
consolidation and other steps as
the primary means of dealing with
our diminishing resource base,"
Welty said.
Groups want to end military
ban with ACLU resolution
New York (CPS) — An American Civil
Liberties Union resolution calling for the
end of the U.S. military ban on gays and
lesbians in the armed forces was signed by
125 educational leaders and institutions.
Theendorsements, which were publicized
In two full-page ads in The NewYork Times
in December, were gathered as part of the
ACLU" s plan to end the military discrimina¬
tion against lesbians and gays in the mili¬
tary. Both ads were funded by grants from
the David Geffeh Foundation.
Among the 31 institutions signing the
1 resolution included the universities of Geor¬
gia, Kansas, Oregon. Rhode Island and New
Hampshire.    „
The presidents of Harvard, Yale and
Princeton universities also signed the reso¬
lution, as did the presidents of Oregon State
University, Arizona State, the State Univer¬
sity System of New York, the University of
Montana and Michigan State University.
Many educational organizations, including
the American Council on Education, the
American Association of University Pro¬
fessors and the National Education Associa¬
tion, also gave support.
Community service
conference slated
St Paul, Minn. (CPS) — The Campus
Outreach Opportunity League will hold its
ninth annual conference on student comrrtu-
nity service March 25 to 28 at theUniversity
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
More than 150 workshops will be held
covering such topics as recruitment, fund-
raising, training and coalition building.'
For more information, write the 1993
COOL National Conference, 319 liflni
Union. 1401W. Green St., Urbana, III. 6180!;
Telephone (217) 333-7076.
Column
From page 2
When more people showed up
for a tour than were anticipated,
Hillary took the Bill by the horns
and directed traffic.
Big deal, right? So a president
has an assertive wife for a change.
Well, now Hillary has decided that
she is Ms. Rodham Clinton again
(no need to assuage the house¬
wives now that the election is over)
and Bill has appointed her (maybe
with a little spousal nudge) to head
a health care reform task force.
The president is still getting used
to his power and Hillary is relish¬
ing hers, so let's chalk the first
week up to growing pains.
However, if Bill delegates too
much of his power to his not-the-
Commander-in-Chief-whether-
she-believes-it-or-not wife and
continues to break his lofty cam¬
paign promises, the country is go¬
ing to feel the pain for the next four
years. -
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