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California State University, Fresno President John D. Welty announced that the university will add course sections with its share of one-time federal stimulus funds made available by the California State University for fall 2010.
Fresno State received $2.9 million from the $50.9 million CSU allocation to its 23 campuses to provide more course options for students.
“This is good news and we are gratified to be able to help our students as we did earlier this school year,” Welty said at a campus Budget Summit attended by students, faculty, staff, administrators and community advisers.
“Students have suffered substantially from the decreasing state support for higher education through increased fees, enrollment limitations and cuts to classes, faculty, staff, services and facilities,” he added.
Welty said the projected campus budget deficit of $8.5 million (the difference between anticipated revenues and costs) could require cutting 64 full-time equivalent faculty positions, mostly from the ranks of lecturers.
“The additional stimulus money will mean that we can reduce that somewhat,” Welty added.
He and Cynthia Teniente-Matson, the vice president for Administration and CFO at Fresno State, led the Budget Summit at which work groups proposed ways to generate more revenue or cut operating costs.
Those recommendations will be incorporated in Fresno State’s budget planning that Welty said would be completed as soon as details of the coming year’s state fiscal picture become clearer.
Details of the CSU stimulus funds allocation are available athttp://www.calstate.edu/PA/News/2010/release/stimulus-funds.shtml
