Believing is Seeing:
The Undoing of CSU, From Within
Like CA, CSU revels in generous ideals but recoils from confronting how to support them. Denial cripples planning; change comes as crisis. There are solutions; they require vision and pragmatism and leadership.
- The Faculty Contract: Structural Flaw In CSU ['06]
- Humpty Dumpty: Can We Put CSU Together? ['07]
- The Crisis Deepens: Fudging Budgets [Spring '07]
- Groundhog Meets Feezilla: Fee, Aid, Fantasy [Spring '07]
- Deja Vue: Fantasy Funding [Fall '08]
- Change - How To Think It [Fall '08]
- Heart of Dumbness - Failed Leadership [Winter '08]
- Perishing Republic - CSU and CA as Symptoms [Winter '08]
- In The Donner Pass - How To Walk Out [Spring '09]
- Why Tuition is a Four Letter Word in California [Fall '09]
- Enrollment [Fall '09]
- Fools' Gold: '10-11 Budgeting [Winter '10]
- On The Bubble [May '10]
Coffee with the President
Can't Get No Respect: The Comprehensive Public University
Before a person signs on to be a provost or academic vice president, I advise cladestine activity. Do not comb your hair. Don a stained sweat suit. Wear sandals, no socks. (When I started out the door incognito, my wife vetoed the look. She said, sorry, not a disguise. Try something clean.) Anyway, head for a coffee house near the target campus. Look for people who are dressed the same way. If they each look over both shoulders before leaning in to whisper, they are wary, with grudges.
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Academic Technology: Where are we going, where have we been?
When we discuss academic technology these days, we tend to focus on two issues, accessibility and Learning Management Systems (LMS). In this essay I focus on the latter. At CSUN we have narrowed the meaning of LMS inadvertently. We think of LMS as a self-enclosed suite of digital files that occupy hardware the way water fills a glass.
Planning Guidelines
The reason that we plan annually is to clarify our collective intentions for CSUN. We do so by evaluating the consequences of past actions and by projecting future trends and needs.
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Academic Planning 2010 - 11
Academic Affairs' vision focuses on connection and engagement. Our connection to the world of work commits us to developing fields of study that provide our region and state with knowledgeable, adaptable professionals who are grounded in a liberal education.
Division/College Plan
Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication
Michael D. Eisner College of Education
Engineering and Computer Science
Social and Behavioral Sciences