Welcome Back! I hope you had a restful & enjoyable
summer vacation!
A Statement about Furloughs, CSU, CSUN, and your
classes this semester:
You are no doubt aware of the
Most of the faculty and staff at CSUN voted for a furlough plan, which means the workers will see a ~10% reduction in pay over the school year and must take a corresponding reduction in their workload. This semester you will see the whole campus closed on designated days. The faculty will also personally select nine furlough days for the semester, days which we must designate in writing. We cannot do any work on a furlough day: no returning or taking of phone calls, no reading emails, no grading papers, no teaching, nothing.
You are paying more for your education now than ever before but note that these new rules for faculty mean that your instructors may have to cancel some class meetings, may not get papers back as quickly as in the past and in many cases cannot do what we normally do to help our students as in years past. As you know this crisis has also meant that many course sections cannot be offered, have limited seats available and/or classes have been canceled. Please know that this situation is outrageous and heart breaking for us. We want you to have the best academic preparation possible, but that goal is becoming more difficult to reach given the economic realities we all face. You will note that in light of the furlough requirement, I have had to cancel classes in all of my graduate course offerings this semester to comply with the furlough regulations.
As faculty members, we encourage
you to step up and get involved in your higher education, your future, and the
future of
Please download, print out, and bring this Graduate Student Information Sheet to class this week.
Psy 310 Lecture (Behavior Disorders) not
offered Fall 2009
Psy 320 Lecture (Statistics) - not
offered Fall 2009
Psy 320 Lab (Statistics) not offered Fall 2009
Psy 427 Lecture (Psychological Testing) not offered Fall
2009
Psy 454 Lecture (Clinical Psychology) not offered Fall 2009
Psy 610A Seminar (Child Psychopathology)
Psy 625C/CL (Child and Adolescent
Assessment and Lab)
Psy 655CC
Clinic (Child and Adolescent Assessment Clinic)
Psy 660T Seminar (Seminar in Family Therapy)
not offered Fall 2009
Psy 691B Seminar (Seminar in Emotions) not offered Fall
2009
Thesis Timelines
Document from 9/16/2009 Mandatory Clinical Graduate Student Meeting
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www.csun.edu/~gk45683
818-677-2964 voicemail
818-677-2827 psych department office
818-677-2829 fax
Wednesdays 330pm 500pm
Or by appointment
Last revised: 9-15-2009