Bill Text: CA ACR52 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: California State University: 50th anniversary.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 58-26)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 105, Statutes of 2011. [ACR52 Detail]

Download: California-2011-ACR52-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 52	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 18, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Block and Lara
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Chesbro, Conway, Cook,
Nielsen, Swanson, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan,
Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Beth Gaines,
Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Hayashi, Roger Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller,
Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A.
Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)
   (  Coauthor:   Senator  
Evans   Coauthors:   Senators  
Berryhill,   Correa,   Emmerson,   Evans,
  Hernandez,   Pavley,  and Yee  )

                        APRIL 25, 2011

   Relative to the California State University system.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 52, as amended, Block. California State University: 50th
anniversary.
   This measure would congratulate the California State University
system on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, commend the
invaluable contributions it has made to the intellectual and social
growth of its students, and extend best wishes for its continued
success in the future.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The California State University system will celebrate its
50th anniversary during 2010 and 2011, and, upon this occasion, it
is deserving of special public commendations; and
   WHEREAS, The California State Colleges was established as a system
by the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960, and in 1972, the system
became known as the California State University and Colleges; and
   WHEREAS, In 1982, the system became the California State
University (CSU), and today, the 23 campuses of the CSU include
comprehensive and polytechnic universities and, since July 1995, the
California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus; and
   WHEREAS, The system's oldest campus, San Jose State University,
was founded in 1857 and became the first institution of public higher
education in California, and today, the CSU is the nation's largest
and most diverse university system, with 23 campuses and seven
off-campus centers, nearly 412,000 students, and 43,000 faculty and
staff; and
   WHEREAS, The CSU draws its students from the top third of
California's high school graduates, many of whom live within the
local service area of the campus, and is the state's primary
undergraduate teaching institution; and
   WHEREAS, Each CSU campus--California State University,
Bakersfield; California State University, Channel Islands (the system'
s newest campus); California State University, Chico; California
State University, Dominguez Hills; California State University, East
Bay; California State University, Fresno; California State
University, Fullerton; Humboldt State University; California State
University, Long Beach; California State University, Los Angeles;
California Maritime Academy; California State University, Monterey
Bay; California State University, Northridge; California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona; California State University,
Sacramento; California State University, San Bernardino; San Diego
State University; San Francisco State University; San Jose State
University; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo;
California State University, San Marcos; Sonoma State University;
and California State University, Stanislaus--has its own identity,
but all campuses share the same mission of providing high-quality,
affordable higher education to meet the changing workforce needs of
California; and
   WHEREAS, With 90,000 annual graduates, the CSU is California's
greatest producer of baccalaureate degrees and drives California's
economy in information technology, life sciences, agriculture,
business, education, international trade, public administration,
hospitality, engineering, entertainment, and multimedia industries;
and
   WHEREAS, The CSU reaches out to California's growing, underserved
communities, granting more undergraduate degrees to California's
Latino, African American, and Native American students than any other
state public university system and offers affordable opportunities
to pursue and attain a college degree; and
   WHEREAS, The CSU is noted for pioneering outreach efforts,
including the creation of the Early Assessment Program (which enables
11th grade pupils to assess their college readiness in English and
math) and the Educational Opportunity Program (an access and
retention program that supports low-income, educationally
disadvantaged students, many of whom are first-generation college
students); and
   WHEREAS, The CSU distributes millions of "How to Get to College"
posters in multiple languages, hosting Super Sunday events at
churches throughout the state as part of its African American
initiative; partners with the Parent Institute for Quality Education,
which helps strengthen parent involvement in elementary and middle
school pupils' education; and actively engages in the state's Troops
to College efforts on behalf of veterans; and
   WHEREAS, The CSU offers more  that   than
 2,000 baccalaureate and masters   master's
 degree programs in some 357 subject areas, as well as teaching
credential programs and its own independent education doctorate
program, and since 1961, the CSU has awarded nearly 2,500,000
baccalaureate,  masters   master's  , and
joint doctoral degrees; and
   WHEREAS, CSU faculty members are renowned for their teaching
skills, as well as their significant contributions to research, and
CSU staff and administrators provide the vital infrastructure to
fulfill the CSU mission and, together, faculty and staff have made
the CSU a leader in high-quality, accessible, and student-focused
higher education; and
   WHEREAS, CSU students participate in 32,000,000 hours of community
service annually at more than 3,560 community sites, including
tutoring children and adults in English as a second language, working
in hospitals and community health clinics, teaching computer
literacy, cleaning up rivers and beaches, serving meals to the
homeless, and building houses; and
   WHEREAS, The CSU returns $5.43 for every $1 the state invests and
sustains more than 150,000 jobs in the state, CSU-related
expenditures create $17,000,000,000 in economic activity, CSU
students represent one in 10 members of California's workforce and
the majority of the state's teachers, and the CSU has more than
2,000,000 alumni; and
   WHEREAS, The Chancellor and the Trustees of the CSU have led the
CSU during extremely difficult economic times that have caused the
CSU to cut admission rates and raise costs, as they have launched
initiatives to increase the system's graduation rates and help
underrepresented students complete college; and
   WHEREAS, Dedicated to helping foster improvement in the
educational, economic, and cultural life in California, the CSU is
developing not only college graduates, but responsible citizens and
leaders for California and the nation; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature takes great pride in
congratulating the California State University system on the occasion
of its 50th anniversary, commends the invaluable contributions it
has made to the intellectual and social growth of its students, and
extends best wishes for its continued success in the future; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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