Pessimistic Over CSUF Cutbacks
* As a lecturer at Cal State Fullerton, I cannot share (Vice President for Academic Affairs) Jack Coleman’s optimism with regard to personnel cuts at the university (“CSUF Moves to Utilize Its Classrooms More Fully,” April 6).
He states that “the school will try to avoid layoffs of permanent employees.” He does not mention that more than half of the CSUF teaching faculty are not classified as “permanent.”
Coleman is “optimistic that the campus will experience minimal layoffs, if any.” Generally speaking, non-permanent faculty are not “laid off,” they are simply not rehired.
The anxieties and contributions of approximately 850 individuals do not even appear to be factored into the administration’s equation.
GAIL REISMAN, Ph.D.
Lecturers’ Representative
California Faculty Assn., CSUF
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