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English Department, California State University, Sacramento

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Calaveras Hall 113

 

Fall 2009 Office Hours



  

Calaveras Hall
Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Thursdays 4.30-5.30 pm
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Multi-Cultural Center, Library 1010
Thursdays 3.30-4.30 pm

 
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leekeller@csus.edu

 
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(916) 278-5410

 

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English Department
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6075

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Advance Furlough Notice

This year the CSU is suffering the most severe budget cuts in the history of the University.  Our Administration is attempting to manage these cuts by increasing student fees and requiring employees to take unpaid furlough days. I am required to NOT work nine days a semester.
                  
On furlough days, I am required to conduct no work activity, including important things—teaching, research, and service—and even the most mundane things, like answering emails.

This Notice is to help you plan your time with me accordingly. As a result the furloughs, I regret that I will completely unavailable on the following days during fall semester:

Tuesday September 15
Monday September 28
Friday October 16
Thursday October 22
Tuesday November 3
Wednesday November 25
Monday December 7

Please note that I must be completely unavailable, otherwise I could be officially reprimanded for "insubordination." I am not permitted to make up work that would normally be done on the furloughed day. So, if you email me on a furlough day, please email me again with the same message on the following day, so that it will not be "carried over" work. Other faculty may be willing to take this risk, but as junior faculty I simply cannot.

Personal note: I think the combination of budget cuts, furloughs, and higher fees will have one of the most detrimental effects on education that I have ever seen in the 40 years that I've been in the California public education system, either as a student or as a faculty member. Furloughs will impact your education overtly (by having specific classes cancelled) or invisibly (by having your assignments silently disappear or readings shortened or other unannounced changes made to the course) and they will make it far more difficult for you to finish your degree program in a timely manner through cuts in course offerings. And, you all know what higher fees will do to your personal finances. Please write your elected public servants (representatives, senators, and governor) with your frustrations. You are a taxpayer and your voice should be heard. We, the faculty and staff, are not the ones who made the decisions that are now negatively impacting your education. We are, instead, merely the ones who are forced to implement these policies that we don't necessarily agree with. Please don't slay the messenger; instead, contact those who are making the decisions.

 
 

 


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Last update August 29, 2009 .