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Tuesday September 18, 2018 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 104 Issue 8 CSUF ranks low in funding per student Cal State Fullerton has the most full time equivalent students yet has the lowest funding per student. HOSAM ELATTAR News Editor Cal State Fullerton receives the lowest funding per full-time equivalent student in the Cal State University system and has the most enrolled students of any CSU, according to a 2018-19 general funds ranking from the CSUF Resource Planning and Budget. Concerns over CSUF’s state funding were addressed at Thursday’s Academic Senate meeting. “There is no question that we as a campus, we as a sys- tem, have been called upon or forced to do more with effective- ly less,” said Fram Virjee, CSUF interim president, at the senate meeting. CSUF receives $7,024 per full-time equivalent student (FTES), a calculated enrollment average by the university which depicts a certain headcount val- ue. The university currently has a total full-time equivalent stu- dent enrollment of 28,937 for the year of 2018-19, according to the same campus funding rate ranking statistics. Irene Matz, a member of the senate who has served as as- sociate and interim dean of the Campuses with slightly small- university would get $15 million The issue has been brought up that conversation.” College of Communications er full-time student enrollment dollars more each year, Virjee at Academic Senate meetings to “What we need is to be stead- at CSUF for eight years, said rates and similar demograph- said. at least four previous presidents fast in getting us from that bot- CSUF receives the least funding ics receive “tens of millions of “I believe this is the result of who promised to talk over the tom position and putting us in a per full-time equivalent student dollars more” than CSUF does, a formula that was created many matter with the chancellor at the position that is more equitable because the sum of money allo- Virjee said. If CSUF were to re- years ago that I have no reason board of trustee meetings, Matz for our population,” Matz said. cated to each university depends ceive the same sum of funding to believe they didn’t think was said. on how they were classified in per full-time equivalent student fair and equitable at the time, She said CSUF presidents the past. as Cal State Long Beach, the but it’s not now,” Virjee said. have to do more than just “revisit SEE BUDGET 3 Executive order changes Nursing student given CSU GE requirements $50,000 by Ellen DeGeneres New updates can help listed as a strength of our school graduation rates but potentially over other Cal States. That was hurt professor positions. what made us different,” Mc- Lain said. AURIELLE WEISS Virjee said the policy chang- Staff Writer es are correlated with the CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025, a CSU effort to increase grad- Chancellor Timothy P. White uation rates for all students issued an executive order in Au- while keeping “opportunity and gust 2017 requiring Cal State achievement gaps” in mind, ac- Universities to change gener- cording to the CSU website. al education requirements. The The executive order states that restructured requirements were if a student decides to change recommended by faculty, stu- their major having already fin- dents, administrators and the ished their general education Academic Senate CSU “regard- requirements, those units will ing how systemwide general ed- “double count” toward their new ucation policy can better,” ac- desired major. cording to the order. Virjee said when certain Executive order 1100 claims classes are no longer a require- to “clarify requirements, en- ment, students may stop taking sure equitable opportunity for them. Although these classes student success and streamline will still be offered, less profes- graduation requirements,” ac- sors will be needed to teach the cording to the CSU website. now elective classes, but Virjee The new requirements took said the results of this are still effect this fall semester. Accord- unknown. ing to White’s memorandum to “We haven’t done anything the presidents, enforcing the pol- yet so we have to see. We don’t icy is the responsibility of Cal know what the effect will be. It State University presidents. may very well be that many stu- At the Academic Senate meet- dents take those courses even TANYA CASTANEDA / DAILY TITAN ing Thursday, faculty took the though they aren’t required,” Lauren Wakefield, nursing student, became a Titan this semester. opportunity to address Fram Virjee said. Virjee, Cal State Fullerton’s However, Virjee said that no A CSUF student hit the Wakefield, 29, shared why their patient’s lives, she decided interim president, with their professors have been laid off jackpot, paying off her she planned to attend Cal she did not just want to volun- concerns. and the 2025 initiative will most State Fullerton in the fall 2018 teer as a nurse; she wanted to be Robert McLain, CSUF history likely lead to the hiring of more student debt. semester. a labor and delivery nurse. professor, said the changes will faculty. She received her bachelor’s “I just want them to know negatively affect CSUF profes- “It could lead to professors BAILEY JONES degree from Johnson Universi- how loved they are, how much Asst. Lifestyle Editor sor jobs stating, “there will defi- being laid off. But it could also ty in Tennessee for management their babies are loved, that nitely be layoffs of our part-time lead to the hiring of more pro- of nonprofit organizations and they are so special,” Wakefield lecturers if the GE changes go fessors. In order for us to grad- Student loans are daunting for knew she wanted to help people said. through.” uate students sooner, that means college students across Amer- in the nonprofit arena. Wakefield was accepted into “It troubles me that I’ll prob- we have to offer more classes,” ica. That’s why when Lauren She volunteered at a crisis the accelerated nursing pro- ably lose colleagues. Mainly Virjee said. “To make more Wakefield, a nursing major, saw pregnancy center, and helped gram in the spring and is cur- because of the loss of the sec- classes available to do that, we Ellen reach out to her college teen moms and women in crisis rently in her first semester at ond half of (World Civilization) have to hire more faculty.” audience on social media about pregnancies. Cal State Fullerton. in the GE category, which was SEE EDUCATION 3 debt she instantly responded. After six years of seeing how the work of the nurses impacted SEE ELLEN 4 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM 2 News TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2018 Budget: Fullerton allocated little money DANIELLE EVANGELISTA / DAILY TITAN CONTINUED FROM 1 persuade the chancellor’s office mean keeping costs down for tuition. which is an unlikely scenario, To get more money for our to change the way the money is students as well as improv- “If you go back 10 to 15 years, Virjee said. campus would mean taking divided in order for CSUF to re- ing their resources on campus, the amount of money for tuition “We take the money that the the funds from other universi- ceive the money it should have Matz said. It would also mean was much lower than it is now. state gives us. We take the mon- ties who have depended on this access to. more tenure-track professors, We have to raise tuition because ey that students pay,” Virjee money for years, a task that is Virjee said this will be an op- who are “committed full time of need. If we have more money said. undesirable and difficult to do, portune time to ask for more to the university” and experts in coming from the budget for the “We put it all together and Virjee said. money, being that this year’s their field. Cal State system, that would not then we educate as many stu- “I don’t want to take the mon- budget is set and most oth- For students, tenure-track hinder the tuition for the stu- dents as we can with that ey away from other students at er CSUs will not approach the professors means students are dents,” Matz said. money.” other schools; I just want our chancellor’s office for funds. receiving a “quality education,” For tuition to actually de- students to be fairly treated,” He also said that he plans on Matz said. crease for students, the univer- Virjee said. doing so this week. Matz said more fund- sity would need significantly He said his goal is to Additional funding would ing would also affect student more funding from the state, 一䔀嘀䔀刀 Editorial Editor-in-Chief Briggetta Pierrot Copy Editor Kristina Garcia Managing Editor Caitlin Bartusick Copy Assistant Bianca Noone News Editor Diane Ortiz Copy Assistant Julius Choi News Editor Hosam Elattar Layout Editor Korryn Sanchez News Assistant Noah Biesiada Layout Editor Emily Mifflin News Assistant Ian Finley Photo Editor Riley McDougall 䴀䤀匀匀 Sports Editor Jared Eprem Photo Editor Joshua Arief Halim Sports Editor Megan Garcia Photo Assistant Dominique Kaye Villamor Sports Assistant Kathryne Padilla Photo Assistant Jessica Ruiz Sports Assistant Matthew Mendoza Social Media Editor Jeremy Rembulat Opinion Editor Brian Becsi Social Media Assist Kevin Ho Opinion Editor Alyssa Lopez Illustrator Anita Huor Opinion Assistant Sophia Acevedo Illustrator Kayla Alcarez Lifestyle Editor Angelina Dequina Illustrator Assistant Danielle Evangelista Lifestyle Editor Tanya Castaneda Illustrator Assistant Diana Yoo Lifestyle Assistant Tabitha Butler Digital Editor Brandon Killman Lifestyle Assistant Stephanie Delateur Engagement Editor Brandon Pho Lifestyle Assistant Bailey Jones Adviser Bonnie Stewart Webmaster Aparna Girme Advertising Contact us: Director Of Advertising Salvador Rivera Editor-in-Chief (657) 278-5815 Asst.

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