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Applications for funding create barriers for campus programs

vice president of student affairs for approval.

Campus activities face increasing financial difficulties as funding has become clogged in bureaucracy, several faculty members told a university committee on Friday.

Cal State Fullerton's Instructionally Related Activities fund, known as IRA, was established by state law to provide financial support for CSU students to experience educational activities related to courses and programs offered at the university.

At CSUF, the fund is supervised by a joint student-faculty committee and the money is held by Associated Students. ASI is paid about $250,000 from IRA funds per year as a management fee.

In the meeting with the university’s planning resource budget committee, faculty members cited the multitude of paperwork and the IRA's unclear structure as reasons for concern.

All full and part-time CSUF students pay more than $40 per semester into the IRA fund. The Athletics Department received 36% of the IRA money, which is worth about $1 million, while all other programs received between $3,000 to $120,000 this year. Applicants must reapply to receive funds each year.

Erika Thomas, co-director of forensics and associate professor in the Human Communication Studies Department, emphasized the difficulty and amount of extra work

put on the staff in order to apply for IRA funding.

"The application process has become just so much more arduous and long. It's very difficult, especially in the time they are now asking for us to turn over that proposal for the following year is getting moved up earlier and earlier," Thomas said.

Since she started dealing with IRA in 2010, Thomas said the amount of paperwork required to receive funds has tripled. She finds

this situation problematic, especially for a program like CSUF's forensic team, which has been around for over 60 years.

"I feel like at this rate, a program like ours is likely to almost eventually give up because it's so difficult just to do the high-impact practice we are meant to do with the students," Thomas said.

Thomas said one of the challenges with IRA funding is that it has become all about the numbers, not the student activities.

“Our campus preaches and supports high-impact practices, but all of this red tape and paperwork is creating a hurdle for our students to get the opportunities that the university seems most proud of; that's what bothers me,” Thomas said.

ASI holds the money while the IRA committee accepts funding proposals from departments and colleges. The IRA committee then submits a proposed budget to the university president, the vice president of academic affairs and the

The director of CSUF's school of music, Randall Goldberg, said he is grateful that IRA exists because he can offer students essential experiential opportunities through their funds.

However, one major drawback he mentioned to the committee is how vendors are compensated for their services through IRA funding. Goldberg said several artists from the spring 2022 semester still need to be paid.

"Guest artists who had filled out paperwork in the spring did not get paid. They still weren't paid come August, September, October, and so we started to receive increasingly frustrated correspondence from artists," Goldberg said.

Some artists threatened to file lawsuits and told Goldberg that they would never work with the university again.

Planning, Resource, and Budget committee chair Jon Bruschke said that this is a major concern for the university, and that the lack of jurisdictional oversight contributes significantly to the issue.

"There's so many moving parts and so many other parts of the campus that need to be in touch with us to figure out who the central entity is that should be trying to make sure that it's working smoothly," Bruschke said.

Moving forward, the Planning, Resource, and Budget committee hopes to invite ASI and its executive director Dave Edwards, who was not present at the meeting, to discuss the issues raised by the faculty.

Edwards did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Opinion: Black faculty shortchanged by CSU

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Black faculty are heavily underrepresented at Cal State Fullerton and the CSUs, despite plans to initiate changes to hire and retain more faculty of color.

In spring 2022, CSUF had 39 Black professors of all ranks out of 826 fulland part-time professors, associate professors and assistant professors. Only one was part-time. An additional 46 of 1,313 full- and part-time lecturers identified as Black, according to university data.

“It’s very clear that the CSU is underrepresented with Black faculty and Fullerton suffers the same problem,”

said Gregory Brown, associate professor of criminal justice.

He added that even when Black faculty are hired, the CSUs and CSUF have trouble retaining them due to hostility on campus and lack of support systems.

David Forgues, vice president of Human Resources, said recruiting Black faculty is challenging for CSUF due to Orange County’s demographics.

Only 2.2% of people in Orange County identify as Black, according to July 2021 U.S. Census data. In California’s total population, 6.5% identify as Black. Neither of these numbers includes people who identify as mixed-race.

Irene Matz, a Human Communications professor and a former chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee, has overseen hiring in the past for the

College of Communications.

“I realized hiring diverse faculty is just not that easy,” Matz said. “Some of the solutions to that diversity hire is ensuring that you get that higher announcement out to the right groups and populations, the universities where diverse people are graduating that might be interested in teaching.”

Matz said recruiting and retaining diverse staff is a nationwide challenge to make CSU students of color feel represented.

These challenges in recruiting and retaining a diverse staff ultimately affect students.

“I'm just thinking about the students and how they can feel isolated and alienated from their own

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CSUF professor of anthropology dies at 64

John Patton, an evolutionary anthropologist and a tribal specialist who taught at Cal State Fullerton since 2005, died on the morning of Nov. 9 at 64 years old. Patton passed from an acute medical event that is still under investigation.

Patton’s passion for anthropology drove him to provide many field experiences to student researchers and pursue greater understanding of tribal societies.

After the launch of a field research site in Conambo, Ecuador in 1992, Patton conducted 12 research trips to examine the Achuar and Sapara communities. Patton and his wife, Brenda Bowser, who is also an anthropology professor at Cal State Fullerton, committed themselves to build relationships with Ecuadorian tribal communities.

In 2018, Patton led a team of eight students, five from Cal State Fullerton, on an ambitious field trip to Conambo. The team’s research consisted of several topics ranging from rates of post-traumatic stress disorder

to infant communication and social status in tribal communities.

Patton always emphasized that anthropological fieldwork is not easy and was aware of the constant danger of insects and diseases in his fieldwork, having fallen victim to malaria, cholera and even had an insect lay eggs in his ear.

Patton established guidelines and improved research infrastructure to protect his students, such as building a residential building with a tin roof, solar panels, a toilet, a shower and a water purification system.

James Zerbe, a CSUF alum who was under Patton’s wing in the Conambo expedition, said he was encouraged by Patton and Bowser to continue his fieldwork and build on their research.

“John and Brenda have such an impressive longitudinal dataset that is quite rare in anthropology. I hope to build off their life’s work and everything they have taught me,” Zerbe said.

Patton also forged a partnership between CSUF and the Peace Corps in 2017. Through this partnership, Patton founded the Evolutionary Anthropology Coverdell Fellows

program at CSUF, which gave fellows the opportunity to integrate their Peace Corps hands-on experience to their master’s thesis or a project with this program.

Elizabeth Pillsworth, an anthropology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Human Nature, now coordinates the Evolutionary Anthropology program.

Pillsworth said Patton was the heart and soul of the anthropology department.

“It is hard to put into words how important John was to our program, our center, our students and our circle of colleagues,” Pillsworth said.

Pillsworth said she hopes to continue carrying on Patton’s dedication to student learning in the program.

Patton served on CSUF’s Academic Senate executive board as vice chair in 2017.

Pillsworth said there will be a community celebration of life dedicated to Patton in the spring.

“He brought joy and excitement and passion for our research and caring to everything he did. I can’t even express how much he is going to be missed by all of us,” Pillsworth said.

Children's Center to raise fees in upcoming school year

the projected deficit. This fee increase comes as California’s transitional kindergarten program is in development.

fees: the Child Care and Development grant and the CA State Preschool Program grant.

The Children’s Center is increasing fees by 2% for the 2023-2024 school year. This fee increase is a temporary solution for the center’s long-term financial issue— the center has higher expenses than available resources.

Currently, the center’s largest expense is paying staff, which will continue to increase as the minimum wage increases.

The center is projected to lose $169,000 in 2024. This fee increase is expected to generate around $114,000, which would help offset

Championed by Governor Gavin Newsom, the transitional kindergarten program will provide free early education for four year olds by the 2025-2026 school year. This program will be a source of competition for the Children’s Center, since parents may save money by enrolling their children in transitional kindergartens.

However, Carolyn Ehrlich, the director for ASI’s financial services, said this fee increase would only minimally affect students. Most of the students that have enrolled their children in the center are supported by two state grants that cover these

The students that are not covered by these grants pay a lower student rate for the center’s services.

“It’s becoming more expensive to have the Children’s Center, but it's a vital resource to serve those students who are also parents, who have to take care of those kids, who have that additional responsibility,” said Morgan Diaz, ASI’s board of directors vice chair.

Lydia Palacios, the Children’s Center director, said she is looking for adjustments to reduce expenses as ASI does not currently have any long-term financial solutions for the center.

A community celebration of life event dedicated to Patton will be held in the spring.

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UC student worker strike heads into third week

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As final exam weeks approach, thousands of University of California graduate student workers plan to continue striking through the rest of the school session until their bargaining contract demands are met and ratified.

The statewide student worker strike continues into its third week. This is the biggest protest in higher education history, with over 48,000 student workers protesting across the UC campuses.

United Auto Workers 5810, which represents over 11,000 postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers across UC campuses, announced Tuesday that they had reached tentative agreements on contracts with the UC.

Although UAW 5810 have reached agreements, the union and its workers will continue striking in solidarity with UAW 2865 and other academic student employees.

“ARs and Postdocs are still striking.

The strikes called over Unfair Labor Practices and in sympathy with Student Researchers and Academic Student Employees will continue while the ratification process proceeds,” according to a statement from UAW 5810’s website.

This marks a major victory for academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars but agreements have yet to be met for teaching assistants and other academic student employees.

UC Irvine is just one of many UC schools to experience protests from student workers in a fight for better wages, student housing and other protections. In the fall 2021 quarter, UCI reported having over 7,000 student workers on their campus.

The United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents over 19,000 teaching assistants, tutors and other student workers across the UC campuses, has been negotiating a new union contract with the UCs. Jackie Ku, UCI graduate student and UAW 2865 bargaining representative for UCI, said negotiations have been ongoing for about nine months.

During that time, UC had not made adequate movements toward what the union believes their new contract should look like, Ku said. According to UAW 2865’s bargaining proposal, this includes a wage increase to $54,000 a year for graduate workers, transit support, child support, international scholar support and more.

UAW 2865 filed an unfair labor practice charge against UC in May of 2022 for “failure to bargain in good faith by circumventing union contract negotiations.”

“They have also committed a number of unlawful practices at the bargaining table in an attempt to essentially undermine the negotiations to get their way without bargaining fairly and that has been a long standing concern,” Ku said.

After the union's contract expired and the UC continued to hold out, Ku said the membership felt that a strike was the only way to get their message across. He said the UC only met with UAW 2865 for two hours during the

first week of striking.

“We're coming in on finals week for this fall quarter, and the UC is not acting with urgency,” Ku said.

“How can the UC hold up its promises to the undergraduates who are paying high tuition, in order to be here, when it won't even bargain with the TAs who helped with their instruction, who helped grade their courses, who helped guide undergraduates out to reach their high grades?”

Randy Felder, a first-year Ph.D. history student at UCI, said that while all UC students share common struggles during these protests, Irvine in particular is an expensive city to live in and residency is a major issue for students.

“Many of us can't even afford to live in the same city that we go to school in, which makes things difficult for a lot of us, especially if you're a commuter of sorts. It's not to take away from any other UCs because, at the end of the day, we are all in this fight together,” Felder said.

Hannah Arp, a biology science major at UCI, said she has already had some of her classes affected by the strike. Her online philosophy course, which has about 400 students enrolled, was suspended in solidarity with the striking workers.

Arp’s genetics course discussions, which are mostly run by teaching assistants, were canceled as well. She said the classes that surround her major are what will affect her the most.

“If I need help in my major classes, and I can't get any help, because they're on strike, then it kind of damages me from learning more than just what the professor is teaching,” she said.

Joost Ziff, a fifth-year Ph.D. student at UCI, is teaching a course in the English department alone this semester. He said he put his course on complete hold when the strikes began and will not resume until an agreement has been met. Ziff said a strike is the most important way that a member of a group can exert their power and speak

as one voice.

“We don't do this because we want to punish the students. But part of them understanding why we're needed is to show that if we don't do our work that the university cannot function,”

Ziff said.

UCI spokesperson Tom Vasich said in an email to the Daily Titan that UCI

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Protests started Nov. 14 at UC Irvine, which had over 7,000 student workers on campus in the fall 2021 quarter.

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Crepes to keep you warm during the holidays

of cucumber tomato salad if you want to feel even more refreshed.

One of the best things about this cafe is the friendly staff and ample outdoor seating. Prices starting at around $13.50 are appropriate for their portion sizes.

Rialto Cafe is located at 108 W. Wilshire Ave.

Fraise Café

This cute creperie in College Plaza serves sweet and savory crepes. This cafe uses non-GMO flour and offers vegetarian and gluten-free items. The prices range from $10.95 to $16.95 for an authentic crepe served with fresh, quality ingredients with a crispy edge yet buttery texture.

You can't go wrong with the sweet crepe, called the Fraise classic. It is soft and buttery, filled with strawberries and bananas. You can drizzle it with hazelnut, milk chocolate or dark chocolate sauces. The portion of their crepes is generous, and they top it with lots of whipped cream. Order a matcha green tea latte to pair with your crepe.

Fraise Cafe is located at 2504 E. Chapman Ave.

Green Bliss - The Cafe

This charming cafe and patio is in the heart of downtown Fullerton, located in the Villa Del Sol building. Inside, sleek brick walls and wood lend a rustic feel.

Crepes, pancakes’ more versatile sister, come with limitless recipes — and there’s a few sweet spots in Fullerton to check out.

The breakfast pastry is paper thin, usually folded or rolled, and lacks the fluffiness of a pancake. Though crepes are lighter, their versatility makes up for what they lack in bulk. You can have them dressed down with just a sprinkle of powdered sugar or gussied up with caramelized

sugar and an assortment of fruits. Or, try them savory and stuffed with ham, cheese, salmon or mushroom. To sample sweet and savory crepes, here are some local cafes and creperies.

Rialto Cafe

Nestled in downtown Fullerton,

this retro-style breakfast eatery serves the best of both worlds. The sweet crepes come with a homemade strawberry compote topped with fresh strawberries and Nutella. The star of their savory crepes is the spinach and mushroom crepe topped with bechamel sauce. Order it with a side

They only serve one kind of crepe here, but it’s more than enough. The crepe is made with fresh strawberries, vegan cream cheese and homemade strawberry jam, drizzled with chocolate sauce and powdered sugar. This vegan crepe is best paired with a kale ginger smoothie for a delightful zing to your day.

Green Bliss is located at 305 N. Harbor Blvd. Suite 103.

Rialto Cafe, located at at 108 W. Wilshire Ave., Fullerton, serves up their signature, homemade strawberry compote crepe topped with a drizzle of Nutella.

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Fullerton lights up downtown for winter season

The Fullerton Museum Center hosted the fourth annual tree lighting ceremony in Downtown Fullerton on Saturday.

The center’s Winter Market included local vendors, performances, arts and crafts for kids and photo opportunities with Santa Claus.

Janet Buzan, the Fullerton Museum Center board president, said the purpose of the event was to fundraise for the museum and to involve the community.

“When the community gets together, you can appreciate each other, especially at this time of year. It makes Fullerton special,” Buzan said. Planning this event was no short feat, with coordinators and volunteers setting up since 10 a.m., said executive director of the museum Elvia Rubalcava.

“We had a group of 20 students from Cal State Fullerton Circle K that volunteered. And within an hour, almost all of this was set up,”

Rubalcava said.

The Fullerton Museum Center hosted the tree lighting for the second time after they were granted permission from the city to take over. The event ran from 2 to 6 p.m., with the tree lighting beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The night was filled with performances from The South Coast Brass, Cooper Art Dance and School of Rock Tustin. Food vendors such as Brothas Cookies, O ff the Boat Fish Grill and Maria’s Original Kettle Corn were present to serve the people of Fullerton.

Vendors were also there to sell pottery, ceramics, photography, jewelry and clothes. One of the vendors, CSUF alumni Armina Colloms, brought out her shop Soul Collective, which specializes in handmade accessories.

“It's kind of like a fun, passionate thing because I just like to create things with my hands,” Colloms said.

Colloms said this was her second time selling at the Winter Market, although she has been involved in the community with events such as

the Fullerton Art Walk.

“I just think that it’s so important. And what better way than to be a part of something where you're able to buy gifts and stu ff for loved ones but also support local vendors,” Colloms said. “This is the backbone of our community.”

The tree lighting ceremony began with Fullerton Mayor pro-tem Bruce Whitaker, Mayor Fred Jung, council members Ahmad Zahra and Jesus Silva, as well as Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva in attendance.

Silva began the countdown as the tree in the middle of the Fullerton Museum Center glowed all evening. Board of directors member and event coordinator Helen Cummings said she hopes events like these bring more people to visit the museum.

“People gather from all walks of life, and everyone has fun, and it's also raising money and awareness for our museum. We want it to be successful so we can continue doing things like this,” Cummings said.

The Fullerton Museum Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. Some of their current

exhibits include Lasorda Legacy, Picturing America’s Pastime and the Art of Phil Young. Their next events will

be on Dec. 9 with a wine and paint night from 6 to 9 p.m. and a shopping soiree from 6 to 10 p.m.

The annual Winter Market, hosted by the Fullerton Museum Center, was held on Dec. 3 from 2. to 6 p.m. at the downtown Fullerton Plaza.

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The South Coast Brass, a jazz and funk band from New Orleans, performed at a stage in front of the Fullerton Museum Center.

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The Winter Market had arts and crafts tables set up for children and parents, such as Christmas tree decorating.

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Women's basketball to host University of Pacific

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Over a week since their home-opener victory against Pepperdine University, Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball will return to the court to face the University of Pacific on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Titan Gym.

After earning two narrow victories to lift their record to 3-2, CSUF ranks third in the Big West standings, behind UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, both of which hold an overall record of 5-1.

Pacific will enter the contest at 5-3 overall and are tied for third place in the West Coast Conference.

CSUF have lost their last seven games against Pacific, with their latest coming in December 2018, where Pacific earned a 72-64 victory.

Fullerton’s defense, currently ranked sixth overall in the Big West and allowing 64.2 points per game, will be tested by their upcoming opponents. Pacific’s offense averages 72.4 points per game and ranks third in scoring in the West Coast Conference.

Gabi Vidmar has been one of CSUF’s most active players on the defensive end of the floor this season, averaging an NCAA-leading 4.6 steals per game through five games.

An aspect that Pacific’s defense has struggled with this season is forcing turnovers, as their opponents have recorded 12.9 turnovers per game. This season, CSUF has struggled to take care of the ball, recording 16.8 turnovers per game, something Pacific will likely attempt to exploit.

The two offenses are led by their backcourts — with a key matchup between Pacific’s leading scorer Liz

Smith versus CSUF’s leading scorer Fujika Nimmo; both players are the focal point of their team’s offense

while also being top scorers in their respective conferences.

The two players are producing

nearly identical numbers this season, with Smith averaging 16.9 points and two assists per game, while Nimmo is averaging 17 points and three assists per game.

Alternatively, CSUF's offense averages 63.8 points per game, so they will likely struggle to keep pace with Pacific on offense if they find themselves in a deficit late in the game.

Offensively, Vidmar is CSUF’s third leading scorer, chipping in 12 points per game, as well as the team’s leading rebounder, grabbing 7.6 boards per game. She could provide an offensive spark that CSUF needs if they find themselves in a deficit.

Another player that could provide scoring for the hosts could be guard Una Jovanovic, who finds herself in an expanded role this season and has been a reliable secondary scoring option for the team. She averages 13.6 points per game this season, which is significantly higher than her 3.1 points per game last season.

CSUF will need to win the rebounding battle in order to prevent Pacific from getting second chances on offense and keep the score close. Fullerton enters the contest at somewhat of a deficit in this category, as Pacific averages 42.3 rebounds per game, while CSUF only averages 32.2 rebounds per game.

Fullerton’s starting center Ashlee Lewis, who ranks second on the team with 6.8 rebounds per game to go along with 11 points, will be tasked with controlling the paint and handling the boards against Pacific.

Tip-off is scheduled Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Titan Gym.

Fujika Nimmo, pictured against Cal State San Bernardino on Nov.5, is CSUF's leading scorer this season, adding 17 points per game.

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Staff: CSU system falters on diverse hirings

education that they're paying for. The professors that don't look like them aren't talking about things that are relevant to the Black community and Black students. And I think that can feel really lonely,” said MeiLing Malone, a CSUF lecturer in the department of African American studies.

As of fall 2021, 2.04% of CSUF students identify as Black, with a total population of 40,087 students as of fall 2021.

In recent years, Black faculty and students have often spoken out about racism in the campus community.

Orange County has a history of racism, but on the CSUF campus alone, there have been racist instances within fraternities, dorms and off-campus housing. In September, the University Village Apartments, which houses many CSUF students, were defaced with racist vandalism on a dumpster. In October, the Holly Hall dorms were painted with racist slurs.

Tyler Sims, president of the CSUF Alliance for the Preservation of African Consciousness, or APAC, said non-Black faculty teaching African American ethnic studies classes is insufficient for students learning.

Sims said recruiting Black professors with lived experiences, extensive research and who care about their class would be beneficial.

Though, CSUF is not the lone CSU facing Black faculty hiring and retention issues.

Long Beach State, CSUF and Cal State Northridge have the highest number of tenure-track professors, but each school still lacks Black professors.

Long Beach State is 12.6% Black, yet only 4.4% of their total faculty is Black as of fall 2021.

Northridge has 794 tenure-track professors, the third highest of the CSUs. In 2021, Northridge had 45 Black professors, making up 5.7% of their tenure-track faculty.

Of all 27,895 faculty members hired at all CSUs in fall 2021, 4.7% identified as Black.

Natalie Graham, the director of the Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation, an organization that works to institutionalize the presence of Black individuals on campuses, said CSUF must focus on appealing to and retaining Black faculty.

The California Faculty Association is an anti-racism social justice institution and union for CSU faculty. The association advocates for quality education for students, fairness for faculty and policies for accessible higher education.

CSUF and the CSUs must collaborate with the faculty association to hire more Black faculty to effectively improve Black students’ experiences

in higher education.

Brown is the faculty association chapter president for CSUF and the association’s associate vice president for southern California. The faculty association partners with the CSUs to increase the number of underrepresented faculty members while tackling institutionalized racism.

Brown said that while CSUF’s plans to hire and retain more Black professors may be a good start, the university needs to continue collaborating with the faculty association to make lasting changes.

“While I applaud the university for talking a good game, it really is time for them to work closer with CFA because we know what’s needed and we know how to do it, and we want to work with the university to accomplish it,” Brown said.

Graham said baseline funding

guarantees that the university focuses on retaining Black faculty. Without baseline funding, organizations that work to enrich the Black community on campus may discontinue if they lose support from the university.

“We can only allot this amount of resources to this issue and the problem is that like white supremacy and anti-blackness is such a powerful driver enforced in the academy, at Cal State Fullerton, in Orange County, that in order to make systemic change, you have to overinvest to dismantle these legacies in order to move forward,” Graham said.

At the Black Student Union and Afro-Ethnic Student Association open forum Sept. 8, Carolyn Thomas, CSUF provost and vice president for academic affairs, promised students that her office would work to increase the number of Black faculty

and retention at CSUF.

“I feel really good about this being a good use of those funds because having the right faculty here and keeping them here is a big part of what makes students successful,” Thomas said in an interview with the Daily Titan.

Thomas said her office would look into initiating relationships with other campuses that have Black doctoral students. She said that asking these students to present a guest lecture for a class or start a conversation will help these students know they have an option for work when they graduate.

After the open forum, Thomas said her office will set aside a pool of funds from the Graduation Initiative 2025 funds. These funds are sent to the CSUs every year to improve graduation rates and to create a grant for faculty interested in working with the community. She said this will help

professors trying to get tenured to have time during the summer to work on their research papers instead of teaching.

The grant will not specifically be for Black faculty, but it will be enticing, and this is CSUF’s opportunity to show that they care about their professors, Thomas said. She also said that receiving the grant looks good on their resume as a Provost Community Fellow Awardee and can help them when receiving tenure.

Brown said he wants students to know that CSUF does have some Black faculty and that they want to be there for the students. He said they are there to help students with their needs and be that support system for Black students.

“We’re few in numbers, but we’re strong, and we want to support our students,” Brown said.

MELANIE NGUYEN / DAILY TITAN

According to CSU data, there's a significant disparity between black students and faculty in comparison to total students and faculty.