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Standing Legislative Education Committees Appointed
The Speaker of the California State Assembly, Fabian Nunez (D-46, Los Angeles) recently appointed members to all of the standing committees of the Assembly. Here are the newly named members of the Assembly’s three key education committees, Budget Subcommittee #2 – Education Finance, Education, and Higher Education; as well as the members of the Senate appointed to the Senate Education Committee and the Budget sub-committee on education. More »
2007-08 CSU Budget Highlights
The Governor announced the proposed 2007-08 budget on January 10th. This proposal supports, with some modifications, the Trustees’ approved budget under the Higher Education Compact. Below is a quick review of the California State University’s portion of the budget.
In the 2007-08 budget proposal the CSU will receive an additional $176.5 million in new state General Fund support and $123 million in new fee revenue associated with an enrollment increase of 2.5% and the Governor’s support of a 10% increase in student fee rates to fund CSU budget priorities.
This represents a 7.4 percent increase over state General Fund and student fee revenue CSU received in the current year. With these increases, the total general operating budget for the CSU now will be over $4.3 billion, with just under $3 billion coming from the state General Fund and roughly $1.3 billion from fee revenue. The total Governor’s Budget revenue increase for 2007-08 is $299.5 million. More »
Major Legislative Trends
More than three hundred measures have been introduced this legislative session including measures addressing universal health care, banning the use of trans fats, enhancing benefits for National Guard/Veterans, addressing flood protection and water delivery, and where one can smoke to name only a few of the measures. While another two thousand measures are likely to be introduced in the next month, many members have attempted to stake out ownership on subject matters or problems that they want to solve this session. Below is a very quick and brief summary of some of the measures introduced so far this session. More »
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Feb. 7–Legislative Liaison Dinner
Feb. 8–2007 Advocacy Team Conference
Feb. 9–E-Advocacy Web Design Southern California Training Day
March 18–Alumni Council Meeting
March 19–Alumni Legislative Day
March 28–Capitol Hill Day
May 23–Spring Advocacy Day
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Legislative Advocacy TEAM Day
The CSU is holding a one-day advocacy conference for all campus-based teams on February 8th at the Sacramento Hyatt Regency. More »
Congratulations to CSUEU!
The California State University Employees Union (CSUEU), which represents over 16,000 health care, operations, administrative and technical support staff of the CSU system has ratified a new three-year contract agreement with the California State University. More »
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