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Bif   Insight Special Report: Society near the 21st Century
By Diedra Werner
Staff Writer
The year is 1998. the place is
CSUF. Construction is about to
begin on the additions to McLane
Hall, and the beloved San Ramon
portables are gone.The Henry Madden Library's East Wing, recently
completed, sits where the eld cafeteria once was. The Kennel Bookstore has expanded eastward and
now takes up as much space as the
east wing of McLane Hall.
If all of these changes on paper
occur, the university will have a
vastly different look. One that is a
bright beautiful place, filled with
new and renovated facilities and
equipment that accommodate faculty, student and community needs.
In reality, Paul Bissormette, vice
president of physical development
and planning, said state approval for
buildings only comes after there is a
present need.
"We are behind. The.
you see being built right n
even accommodate our immediate
needs. If the enrollment grows only
modestly in the next four to six
years, we will meet our current facilities needs," Bissonnette said.
"But, if the governor announces
tomorrow a major commitment to
higher education then we'll probably still be behind in meeting the
needs of the student population."
Susan Aldrich. CSUF facilities
planning" director, agreed with
Bissonnette. "As Fresno and this
region continue to grow, the need
for our campus will also grow, but
right now we are accommodating
growth that has already taken place."
There are plans for additional
buildings on the east side of campus, Aldrich said. The existing
boundaries and the core of the campus will remain the same.
"We want to keep the existing
barriers intact and keep the core of
the campus within a walking radius," Aldrich said. "If we spread
out much further, [the campus] becomes too difficult to contain."
As campus planners, Aldrich and
Bissonnette look out into the future
and predict what kind of faciliues
are needed to maintain and support
CSUF'smaximum full-time equivalent of 20,000 students.
But Aldrich said a big problem is
trying to plan for the future while
trying to accommodate for the
present.
Although the campus is 40 years
old, it has always been a growing
campus with a facilities deficit,
Bissonnette said. At the same time,
older faciliues are in decline and
need renovation.
So the campus struggles with two
different identities. It is a growing
university yet an older, mature university. Bissonnette said that even
after facilities needs are met, capital
outlay funds will still be needed to
maintain and renovate existing facilities.
Design of CSUF campus
depends on future funds
Courtesy/Instructional Media Services
An architectural rendering of the classroom building.
Aldrich mast balance those two
needs with continuity and priorities.
Part of the future design of the campus, she said, is creating a stronger
sense of unity among campus buildings and facilities.
Bissonnette said since the campus is
working with a finite number of acres,
interior open spaces are an intricate
part ofthe campus look. Future landscape design will help make existing
spaces well unified and well used,
Aldrich said. "We want to make the
campus more agreeable to students
by creating a stronger sense of place
on campus; a stronger sense of
CSUF."
For example, with the renovation
ofthe Social Science Building in the
late '90s. Aldrich said, there will be
money to renovate the space for the
four surrounding buildings. Tentative plans for this site include tearing
out the asphalt sidewalks to turn the
center of the site into an English
garden.
"We're trying to make good use of
open spaces," Aldrich said. "With
each new project site we complete,
we try to finish off the space around
An additional four-story-classroom
building to be located in front of the
Peter's Building will replace the portable class rooms in two to three
years, Bissonnette said.
Although the Master Plan projects
the completion of the humanities auditorium situated off Maple and Shaw
avenues to be by 1998, Bissonnette
believes it falls lower in the priorities
and may be pushed farther into the
future.
However, library renovation and
expansion is scheduled to begin in
late 1996, which will include new
equipment and extensive storage.
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Renovation and construction on
McLane Hall is proposed forthe late
'90s , but is dependent on priority
and funding.
There's also a possibility of a park -
ing structure some where in the vicinity of the library in the next 10
years. However, Facilities Planning
is required to do a parking study
before any new parkingcan be implemented, Aldrich said.
Except for the buildings under construction now and a renovation of
the campus electrical system, most
projects are in the planning and development stage. The master plan
slates the completion for most of
these facilities to be before the rum
ofthe century, but completion dates
are always dependant on funding,
Aldrich said.
Funding, according to Aldrich and
Bissonnette, comes in the form of
general obligation bonds that must
be approved by California voters.
Other forms of funding, mainly from
the State General Fund, have dried
up, she said, and building funds arc
becoming increasingly dependent
upon bonds and private contributions for new revenue.
CSUF is unique as a state school
because private contributions have
been a part of every building constructed on campus, Bissonnette said.
"The community has been very generous and supportive of CSUF, but
building new facilities is very expensive, and must be supported
through bonds.
However, community contributions make up only a fraction of new
building costs but are significant
because private donations will continue to help defer equipment costs,
said.
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^Service industries project most job growth.
By Shelley L. Willingham	
Staff Writer
In Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World, the mass
production of Ford automobiles spurred acaste system of
human predestination. People were manufactured just as
products were manufactured — for the solitary goal of
production and consumerism. The highest priority, consumption. The highest power, technology.
Huxley's 1930s vision pegged the great evil as the
evolution of technology, but today high technology is
present in almost every field of employment, requiring
individuals to continue education throughout their lives.
In today's brave new world, services are projected to be
the highest growth industry in California from 1990 to
1997, and local government runs a close second, according to California's Labor Market Division Report titled
"June 1992 Annual Planning Information."
An increase of 24.9 percent, or 13300 jobs, in the
services industry is projected to develop within this last
decade of the 20th century.
Health services typically accounts for the largest group of
workers within the services industry.
"High technology requires people to be able to operate
equipment such as CAT scans, and there is going to be a
need for all types of health-care providers," said Robert
Schultz, chair of the CSUF Department of Health Science.
Career growth goes through peaks and valleys, but
there is a particular need for employees in health science,
according to Schultz.
One example of health science is the wellness program
at Boeing Corporation. It's considered the premier model
by Vickie Crenz, a health promotion professional and
CSUF community health professor.
The wellness program at Boeing provides employees
with behavioral advice for maintaining good health.
Programs address topics such as heart disease, cholesterol and smoking.
"When a wellness program is placed in the work setting, you will see decreased absenteeism, decreased insurance claims and more productive employees." Crenz
said.
Health service careers rely on high technology for
equipment such as the CAT scan or Magnetic Resonant
Imaging machine both of which take internal photographs. Health services also rely on computers for
gathering data and presenting health promotion programs
such as those used at Boeing, Crenz said.
"Health care is so specialized that we provide students
with a broad base of knowledge."
Because of these various demands, students arc trained
in a variety of areas to include the sciences and administration. Business services is the second largest area of
projected growth in the services industry between now
and the year 2000. These services range from computer
programming and data processing to direct mailing.
There are broad applications of computer engineering
and sciences available to those developing a computer
career today.
Language definitions, compiler theory and operating
systems software are all the purview of computer science,
according to Larry Owens, CSUF computer and electrical engineering professor.
"However, the design of computer chips is electrical
engineering," Owens said.
Finally, those who design computer systems by combining hardware and software then make that package
work are applications oriented, Owens said.
"Computer work is definitely seeing a trend in high
technology away from defense employment and toward
commercial as a direct result of defense-spending cuts,"
Owens said.
The continued development of various computer technologies is a result of economic efficiency, according to
"During the time the economy has been poor, businesses
from McDonald's to IBM have been cutting people to cut
costs, and they will be reluctant to staff back up to the
previous levels," Owens said. "So when their businesses
grow, they supplement people with more efficient computer technology."
Owens discussed many applications for computer-technology advancements. Video phones arc now available
and some high-tech phones access databases. Florida and
Washington, D.C., currently market prototypes that allow
room reservations, banking or grocery shopping without
ever talking to a person.
"These will grow from potential consumer products to
one in every household," Owens said.
A personal communicator is now being developed by
AT & T that will work as a cellular phone but by way of a
computer system, Owens said.
These developing technologies will affect the work environment to eventually provide convenient access to vast
informational resources.
According to Walter Read, professor of computer sciences, all of these technologies will continue to require that
employees be either trained in compute: engineering and
sciences or capable of applying and using the technologies
in their work.
"Wc teach computer literacy to prepare a broad range of
people," Read said.
"We try to pul students on something that is near state of
the art such as Macintosh systems with Word, spreadsheets, and so on."
After services, government employment in the Valley-is
the second largest growth industry as of 1991. Even though
projected growth from 1990 to 1997 will increase only by
8.7 percent, total government rosters arc expected to reach
a record high of 55,100 jobs compared to 51,900 jobs in
1990, based on the "June 1992 Annual Planning Information Report."
Local education is the largest area of government growth,
and computers arc infiltrating every facet of education
from elementary classrooms to the college level.
The CSUF Department of Advanced Studies and the
Department of Teacher Education is developing a computerized instructional program through the graduate administration program entitled "Realms of Meaning."
The system is designed to work the way people think
and will be useful in lesson planning for teachers or as a
direct tool for students, according to Don Coleman,
coordinator of Education's Administration programs.
"I work with credential students aspiring to school
administration such as the role of principals," Coleman
said.
"Realms of Meaning" works by organizing information
in categories. "Symbolics" covers language and math.
"Empirics" explores the life, physical and social sciences. The other categories are "Synnoctics", "Ethics".
"Synoptics" and "Aesthetics."
"Kids can use it or die teacher can store lessons on it,"
said Kara Clayton, Coleman's assistant "You have to
leach people how to teach themselves."
"This program enables multi-media presentations in the
classroom to replace overhead projectors and other
equipment," Coleman said. "This computer could easily
be available in the work place or classroom by the year
2000."
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