The Cal State University system will be given $106 million for additional student admission and other student services for the upcoming 2011 spring and winter semesters.
While the additional funds will allow admission to roughly 10,000 applicants throughout the CSUs, the majority of prospective students will have to wait until the fall 2011 semester. As of Sept. 13, the CSU system has received approximately 41,000 applications for admission to the spring 2011 term, according to the press release.
Across the system, campuses will be able to admit an additional 10,000 new students and restore 3,000 course sections for the winter and spring terms, according to the CSU press release.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will allocate the money to all 23 CSU campuses, providing Cal State Long Beach with approximately $8.1 million, according to CSU Media Relations Specialist Erik Fallis.
The $106 million will be broken down and distributed among campuses according to how much was taken from each campus during the reduction.
“Campuses are getting funding back in the same proportion to the amount that was cut within the last two years,” Fallis said.
According to Fallis, $5 million of the additional funding will go toward the admission of approximately 928 transfer students to CSULB.
The remaining $3.1 million will go toward adding classes, admitting new students and student services.
“Student services that will be partially restored include advisement, health and learning centers, along with increased student operations such as library hours and maintenance,” according to a CSU public affairs press release.
Although CSULB has not yet received any of the proposed funds, “the money is already being counted into the budgets for the upcoming winter and spring terms,” Fallis said.
As a final round of support from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, the money is a first attempt to replenish state funding to CSU campuses.
CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed said in the press release, “Despite this influx of one-time funding, it is essential that the state will continue to uphold its commitment to higher education and restore state funding as currently outlined in the budget.”
Over the last few years, the CSU system has seen massive budget cuts, resulting in employee furloughs, increased student fees and enrollment cuts. Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget includes the restoration of state funding, a first for CSU’s since 2007, according to the press release.
Funds will help CSULB in making its payroll budget.
“We spend 80 percent of our budget on employee salaries,” Fallis said. “Federal money must be spent on salaries for employees on the payroll.”
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