Letters
Sacramento Bee 4/12/07
CSUS chief is out of touch• Removing the beloved chickens from campus, our unofficial mascot.
• Seeking to change the CSUS name to Sacramento State University against the will of the students and faculty.
• Reducing class selections and increasing class sizes, thus delaying student's progress toward graduation.
• Constructing administrative and athletic buildings, but no classrooms.
• Presiding over student fee increases while he transfers funds from actual instruction to funds such as public affairs.
• Refusing to ameliorate the experience penalty that junior faculty suffer from.
• Gutting the multicultural student center and assistance courses for less prepared students.
• Enrollment goals not met.
• Graduation rates down.
• Faculty leaving in droves.
• And he takes a raise during all of this and hires his unqualified son at a salary higher than most faculty.
The list goes on and on. How can anyone defend the destruction of public education, and why on Earth should we try to find a way to work with such a goal?
- Kevin Wehr, Sacramento
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, CSUS
The faculty at CSUS has no choice but to oppose the policies of the current campus president, Alexander Gonzalez. His priorities are completely screwed up: additional funds for university advancement (public affairs and student recruitment) while cutting classes. That is, unfortunately, what he stands for. This makes no sense to anyone.
If left unchecked, Gonzalez will destroy CSUS. His allies talk only in vague generalities because the facts do not support them. The faculty is opposed to the policies of Gonzalez and his administration, not the man.
If he would put priority on education and student learning, people would support him. Instead, the faculty is now being forced to take a stand against his nonsense. Shame on him and what he is trying to do.
- James Chopyak, Sacramento
Professor, Department of Music, CSUS