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| Enrollment On Campus Discussed By Senate | ||||||
| The future may hold some significant changes for the CSULB campus, including more parking and less crowding of students. | ||||||
| Vice Provost David Dowell gave a presentation to the A.S. Senate Wednesday on what he termed, "the campus master plan." This plan takes into account expansion and budget process issues that would affect individual students as well as the entire look of the campus. | ||||||
| Enrollment limits was a major point in Dowell's presentation, and he cited a study saying the CSU-system must be prepared to accept "more than 100,000 additional students by 2011."� The current enrollment ceiling at CSULB was set in 1972 at a maximum of 25,000 FTES, or full-time equivalent students (note: this campus has more students than the 25,000 figure, but not all of them are full-time).� According to Dowell, CSULB will either reach or be very near to its limit in 2003 or 2004. | ||||||
| Growth, however, can be a good thing, and Dowell noted that having more students would also mean having more faculty.� The down side to growth, however, would be more traffic and crowding on campus. | ||||||
| To deal with the possible crowding, Dowell said, new structures would have to be created, some of which have already been contemplated.� According to Dowell, "this would be the last major change to the physical layout of the campus likely to happen for the next 10-20 years."� Dowell also noted that the "green space" on this campus "is the single most important asset here," and would not be cut down or affected. | ||||||
| Dowell concluded by saying that after the proposition for these changes is made to the president, there would be a one-year discussion to determine environmental issues and hear community input. | ||||||
| In other news, Renee Twigg, director of the student health center, spoke to the Senate on the likely semester fee increase students may have to pay to continue using the health center.� "Students basically get free care as it is," Twigg said, noting the extremely reduced price students pay at the center rather than at a local pharmacy or doctor's office.� Twigg continued by saying that since this school already has a large student body and because it is only getting larger, it is essential that students pay a slight increased fee of ten dollars per semester to continue to receive the same benefits. | ||||||
| The issue, which is set to be discussed by the fee committee on Dec. 3, will probably be passed and then sent to the president's office for further review. | ||||||
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