California Faculty Association.
While CFA believes that online education can be a
successful mode of instruction for some students and while we wholeheartedly
support the goal of expanding access to higher education in California, we have
deep concerns about some proposed legislative solutions that mandate online
instruction or call for blanket standardization of curriculum across a variety
of institutions.
CFA also fundamentally rejects the belief that
after years of deep cuts in state support for the CSU the solution to restoring
the greatness of the system lies in throwing open the doors to private vendors
and privatizing operations. CFA fought for additional revenue and the voters of
California overwhelming supported those efforts. In a post-Prop 30 world, the
focus should be on restoring funding to the CSU and focusing on the core
mission of education, not turning it into an experiment with student success
hanging in the balance.
We believe that it is a strength of our system
that the 23 campuses of the CSU (and the campuses of the UC and CC systems as
well) each offer rich and unique educational experiences that are shaped by the
needs of students on that particular campus and by the needs of the community
surrounding the campus.
