In an effort to address a projected $584 million budget deficit for 2009-10, the California State University Employee Union (CSUEU), that represents more than 16,000 non-academic employees, has voted to enter talks with CSU on the concept of two day per month furloughs. This option is under consideration rather than the contractually mandated non-retention and layoff language contained in CSUEUs labor agreement with the CSU. In addition, the Academic Professionals of California, that represents approximately 2,400 student services employees, has also voted to begin the same process.
Combined with changes initiated this month to Title 5 that would allow CSU flexibility to furlough management employees, a total of approximately 21,000 of CSUs overall workforce of 47,000 employees are committed to looking at furloughs as a way to address the budget deficit.
CSU has been meeting with the systems labor unions that represent the vast majority of its workforce to discuss the furlough option and expects to finalize the details of an action plan in the near future. Approximately 80 percent of CSUs budget goes toward employee salary and benefits, and the CSU is proposing to furlough all of its employees (with the exception of public safety personnel) in all classifications, including management and executives, to help close the anticipated budget deficit.
The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company decided to confront Lady Luck head on by mounting the play that has the most superstition attached to it. There is a long history of disastrous events associated with the production, starting with the first Lady Macbeth collapsing from a fever and dying. Actors still try not to mention the name of the play in a theater.
McEliece studied at Caltech as both an undergrad and graduate student, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964 and PhD in 1967. He became a professor at the Institute in 1982. “I’m delighted, shocked and thrilled to have my name associated with Alexander Graham Bell,” he said. “I never knew much about his life, but this is a real thrill. I wish my mom and dad were alivethey would understand.”
The exhibition, now in its ninth year, is the culmination of the semester’s work for several different courses related to technology and interactivity in art; this time the courses represented are Recombinant Media, Chain Reaction, and Intro to Max Signal Processing. These interdisciplinary studiosopen to all CCA students with junior standing or aboverepresent the college’s best and most idealistic intentions: a true mixing of theory and practice, and the bringing together of multiple disciplines into a situation that is intellectually stimulating, dynamic, and extraordinarily productive.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
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