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it deemed appropriate. He .said the commit¬
tee was advisory first to the dean but also to
the provost ' . \
Other committee members include: Juan
C. Garcia, Doris O. Smith and Atilano
Valencia.
John Franz of the Employee Assistant
Program will act as a consultant to the
committee according to an administration
source.
Gonzalez acknowledged that 19 full
professors, of 37 in the school, have ex¬
pressed dissatisfaction with the dean, and
some asked that she be replaced.
He said he considered the criticism
unusual coming from such senior faculty
members and being so openly expressed. It
was in response to this and a survey taken in
the spring semester that he formed the
advisory committee. He said that in his
opinion "clearly there is a problem."
Gonzalez said that last spring a survey
was taken of all facility and staff in the
school asking 50 questions about the dean.
It yielded about a 90 percent response which
he characterized as bi-modal. He explained
that out of about 70 respondents from the
school that they were either very positive or
very negative about the new dean. Very few
professors were equivocal or ambivalent.
Gonzalez said he considered this a very
unusual response as most surveys of this
type follow a bell curve with the majority of
responses somewhere in the middle.
Valencia said that the* committee was
still in the process of defining its role and
procedures but beyond that he declined to
comment on the nature of the investigation
or how the committee would seek faculty
input.
Please see UNREST, page 5
Alleged abuses lead to unrest in Ed School
By Mike Palmer
StaffWriter
In what Provost Alexander Gonzalez
called an "unusual move", he has appointed
a committee of four education professors
"to assist the dean and improve the commu¬
nication process" between Dean Barbara G.
Burch and the faculty of the School of
Education and Human Development.
Although a member of this special
committee, Roy M. Bohlin said this was the
official charge to the committee, Gonzalez
said that there were no limitations on the
committee and it could deal with any issues
AIDS boy
emphasizes
education
By Marlene Bryant
StaffWriter
Do you have aAIDS or know someone
who might? Now is the time to be aware.
World -AIDS A warene^ Day is observed
on Dec. 1 and is the only national coordi¬
nated effort to recognize and defeat the
deadly virus.
The day is to recognize that AIDS is a
global epidemic and everyone should at¬
tempt to take an active interest in fighting
tlie disease.     \ /       \
'Teople should be more aware—its not
necessarily a gay issue. Its important that
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Cut: John Gonzales,
center, consults with
Kyle Powe while
editing a videotape for
a telecommunications
class. Derrecke
Thompson, back¬
ground, assists.
Photo: Steve Skibbie
CSUs losing students of fastest pace in history
By Adam Breen
StaffWriter
Decreasing enrollment at California State
University, Fresno over the past two years
is part of a systemwide trend stemming
from state budget cuts, according to the
Chancellor's Office. JP
Enrollment for the fall 1992 semester
fell by nearly 1,000 students at CSUF and
by more than 14,000 students at the 20 CSU
campuses compared to last year.
CSUF's enrollment this semester is
18,902, a 5.3 percent decrease from fall
1991 .The decrease is the 1 lih largest among
state univeKities.
Chancellor Barry Munitz said the sys¬
tem is falling behind in funding at a time
when students are finding it more difficult
to attend a university.
"My worry is that we will never recap¬
ture all of these students and that some will
never get the opportunity to attend a univer¬
sity," he sai(J. "We have to change this
downward cycle and restore higher
education's fair share of state allocations."
A four percent decrease in Q& enroll¬
ment follows last yeaf?«.decljne of 1.9 per¬
cent The two-year, 5.9 percent enrollment
decrease is only the second time that the
system has suffered two consecutive years
of declining student number^since its for¬
mation in 1960. '
The system lost nearly 6,000 students
from 1981-83 compared to a decrease of
21,740 this past two years.
Despite a decline in enrollment, the
systemis serving more students and provid¬
ing more classes than state financing al¬
lows.
The state has provided the CSU with
enough funding to serve 247,500 full-time
equivalent (FTE) students, but 260,089 are
enrolled. The system receives' funds for
FTE figures based on students taking 15
units in a term.
''According to the Chancellor's Office,
another 30,000 students could attend the
CSU but state funding is not there to support
them.
The 1992-93 support budget of $1.51
billion is approximately 7.8 percent less
than the system received in 1991-92, Mu¬
nitz said.
"The CSU is at a critical juncture in its
mission," he said. "We have .a historic
commitment to the people of California to
provide a high-quality, low-cost education
to their children, yet the cuts of the past two
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