Spring Break
CSU Chancellor covers
budget and financial aid in conference
Matthew Kimel
Issue date: 9/30/08 Section: News
Chancellor Charles Reed spoke with student media last Thursday to discuss the positive and negative state of affairs within the California State University system.
The first topics addressed by the chancellor were the state budget and financial aid.
"The good news," Reed said, "is on Tuesday (last week), the governor signed the budget. The bad news, I guess, would be that, CSU did not get fully funded."
Now that the budget has been signed, Reed said financial aid will be going out to students as soon as possible.
Reed said the university system will receive the same funding this year as it did last year. He said with faculty raises, health insurance fees and roughly 10,000 more students, the budget is going to be approximately $100 million short of what the CSU should have been funded.
"I do not anticipate the 2009-10 budget being any better," Reed said, who cautioned that next year's budget could be worse than this year's.
According to this year's registration and admissions for the Fall semester, the CSU could have about 10,000 more students than it is funded for among its 23 campuses.
Reed also addressed the CSU's sustainability efforts.
"We're trying to figure out how to save as much energy as we can," Reed said, "to make the CSU a greener university system."
Reed said many students are helping to make the university greener.
Students at Cal State Chico have banned plastic water bottles on its campus with the Bring Back the Tap initiative, an effort to stop throwing away plastic bottles that end up in land fills, Reed said.
At Cal State San Marcos, the students have won the National Recycle Mania four years in a row and have saved materials at a rate of almost 76 percent, he added.
He also spoke about textbook affordability.
"I need to apologize to all of our students," Reed said. "I just think that the cost of textbooks is outrageous."
Adam Ripley, a senior kinesiology major, said textbooks are a little overpriced, and he sometimes doesn't buy certain textbooks if they are too pricey.
The first topics addressed by the chancellor were the state budget and financial aid.
"The good news," Reed said, "is on Tuesday (last week), the governor signed the budget. The bad news, I guess, would be that, CSU did not get fully funded."
Now that the budget has been signed, Reed said financial aid will be going out to students as soon as possible.
Reed said the university system will receive the same funding this year as it did last year. He said with faculty raises, health insurance fees and roughly 10,000 more students, the budget is going to be approximately $100 million short of what the CSU should have been funded.
"I do not anticipate the 2009-10 budget being any better," Reed said, who cautioned that next year's budget could be worse than this year's.
According to this year's registration and admissions for the Fall semester, the CSU could have about 10,000 more students than it is funded for among its 23 campuses.
Reed also addressed the CSU's sustainability efforts.
"We're trying to figure out how to save as much energy as we can," Reed said, "to make the CSU a greener university system."
Reed said many students are helping to make the university greener.
Students at Cal State Chico have banned plastic water bottles on its campus with the Bring Back the Tap initiative, an effort to stop throwing away plastic bottles that end up in land fills, Reed said.
At Cal State San Marcos, the students have won the National Recycle Mania four years in a row and have saved materials at a rate of almost 76 percent, he added.
He also spoke about textbook affordability.
"I need to apologize to all of our students," Reed said. "I just think that the cost of textbooks is outrageous."
Adam Ripley, a senior kinesiology major, said textbooks are a little overpriced, and he sometimes doesn't buy certain textbooks if they are too pricey.
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