I recently discovered this fascinating resource. Factual TV

FactualTV is a consumer service open to everyone. Among other things, our service is used for professional and educational purposes. Our movies can be watched by streaming them directly from the site, or be purchased either by Download or DVD. Some titles are ‘Premium’ titles and these are only available as Download or DVD.

They have subject specific channels, and there is a channel just for music. Here are a few of the offerings from the music channel:

Rubarbicon is a mock-rock-umentary that follows the life, the music, and the tragic demise(?) of modern rock legends Grand Theft Bus.

The House is placed behind the biggest graveyard in Zagreb (Croatia). In this house people don’t eat, watch TV and sleep, but coming in to play music every day from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.

Got No Jeep and My Camel Died: Like the historical “Perfume Road”, it is a musical journey of Yair Dalal – from the Persian Golf to Jaffa, from antiquity to modern times, from playing with Bedouins in the desert to concerts world-wide and a nomination for the BBC World-Music Award. Inspired by his Iraqi musical Masters-ancestors from Babylon, who have trusted in his hands the torch of their vanishing legacy, he personally vows to them to carry it on. Declaring himself a native Middle-Eastern, Yair wonders back and forth in time, between the Sinai Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, struggling for recognition in his roots and convictions by establishing “Almaya” – his own music school in Old Jaffa Port – a social-cultural bridge between East and West. In the form of a “Musical Documentary” the story bonds the geographical with the human landscape by melting between Yair – the man, the Israeli – and his art which reaffirms and embodies the existence of Israel in the Middle East.

Etnika – Live at St. Elmo: Etnika is one of Malta’s leading modern folk bands founded in 2000. The Etnika project has also aimed at resuscitating traditional Maltese instruments that had fallen out of use and presenting these forgotten soundscapes to Maltese society, with an aim to raise national consciousness. In this film, we see them performing live at Fort St. Elmo, Malta.

JACK BOULWARE and SILKE TUDOR with FRANK PORTMAN
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.

“When punk broke in the Bay Area, with the clamor and the rage, the sex and the safety pins, the sound and the fury, you were either there or you weren’t. If you were there you’re probably in this book. If you weren’t you should read it.” —Daniel Handler

Outside of New York and London, California’s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk rock scene in the world — from the innovative late-70s art-damage of San Francisco’s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley’s Gilman Street, where bands like Green Day, Rancid, and AFI got their start.

Gimme Something Better by Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, straight from the mouths of the bands, roadies, record labels and fans.

Jack and Silke spent two years interviewing countless contributors across the Bay Area, the US and the globe. You will find first-hand accounts from Danny Furious and Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Davey Havok of AFI, Larry Livermore of Lookout! Records, Fat Mike of NOFX, Tim Armstrong of Operation Ivy and Rancid, members of MDC and Flipper, and editors of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, among many others.

Gimme Something Better represents the definitive chronicle of Bay Area punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence. The book features black and white photographs throughout, an exhaustive who’s-who list, and an introduction by Jesse Michaels, famed singer of Operation Ivy.
Cost: FREE
Website: http://www.booksmith.com/events.html
Venue: The Booksmith
Address: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA

Here at the Leonard Library, there are materials that will help you learn about the punk scene, here in the Bay Area and beyond.

Very soon we will have our own copy of Gimme Something Better: A History of Bay Area Punk. In the meantime, these other local libraries in our LINK+ system can help.

Punk ‘77 : an inside look at the San Francisco rock ‘n’ roll scene, 1977 / photographs, text, design by James Stark.

Green Day : American idiots & the new punk explosion / Ben Myers.

924 Gilman : the story so far– / compiled, edited, & designed by Brian Edge.

Died for your sins [sound recording] / The Avengers.

Live at the Deaf Club [sound recording] / Dead Kennedys.

Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables [sound recording] / Dead Kennedys.

Night shift at the thrill factory [sound recording] / The Mr. T Experience.

Punk side story [sound recording] / [music by (originally) Lenny ; drunk version, Schlong ; original lyrics by Mr. Stephen ; arranged by Gavin MacArthur].

Let’s go [sound recording] / Rancid.

Landshark [sound recording] ; Where the wild things are / Fang.

Hardcore California : a history of punk and new wave / Peter Belsito, Bob Davis.

Generic [sound recording] / Flipper.

Operation Ivy [sound recording]

Complete discography [sound recording] / Minor Threat.

The record [sound recording] / Fear.

Millions of dead cops [sound recording] ; More dead cops / MDC.

American hardcore [videorecording] / AHC Productions, LLC ; Sony Pictures Classics ; producers, Steven Blush and Paul Rachman ; writer, Steven Blush ; director, Paul Rachman.

The lost women of rock music : female musicians of the punk era / Helen Reddington.

Pretty vacant : a history of punk / Phil Strongman.

To access sound recordings, just walk over to HSS 127 and ask for them in person. They are located in the Library Media Services Department. For print materials, please use the request feature in the library catalog.

Here is the obit from the New York Times.

Here is what All Music Guide has to say about Mercedes Sosa:
The driving force behind the nueva canción movement, singer Mercedes Sosa was born and raised in Tucumán, Argentina, beginning her performing career at age 15 after taking top honors in a radio station amateur competition. A rich, expressive vocalist and a gifted interpreter, Sosa was dubbed “the voice of the silent majority” for her choice of overtly political material, and alongside artists including Violetta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui she spearheaded the rise of the so-called “nueva canción” movement, which heralded the emergence of protest music across Argentina and Chile during the 1960s. The movement was crippled in 1973 by the CIA-sponsored coup which ousted democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; with her repertoire of songs championing human rights and democracy, Sosa was viewed as a serious threat by the military regime which assumed power, and in 1975 she was arrested during a live performance which also resulted in the incarceration of many audience members. Death threats forced her to leave Argentina in 1979, and she remained in exile for three years, finally returning with a triumphant comeback performance in February 1982. Sosa recorded prolifically in the years to follow. In fall 2000, Sosa won a Grammy for Best Folk Album for Misa Criolla at the first annual Latin Grammy Awards.

Mercedes Sosa Radio on LastFM

Here at the Leonard Library, there are materials you can check out to learn more about Mercedes Sosa and the music from Argentina.

Mercedes Sosa en Argentina [sound recording] / Mercedes Sosa.

Gracias a la vida [sound recording].

Tango [sound recording] : zero hour / Astor Piazzolla.

From tejano to tango : Latin American popular music / edited by Walter Aaron Clark.

Le grand tango : the life and music of Astor Piazzolla / María Susana Azzi, Simon Collier.

Big book of Latin American songs : piano, vocal, guitar.

The Garland handbook of Latin American music / edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy.

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean : an encyclopedic history / edited by Malena Kuss.

ENJOY!

The San Francisco State School of Music is very active, and the students who take classes here are fortunate to have a teaching faculty who are experts in music from across many genres and geographies. One very active genre is what is categorized as 20th and 21st Century classical music. Avante-garde, Expressionism, Serialism, Computer music, Electronic music and Aleatoric music are just some of the terms used to describe the different subcategories of this modern music.

The Leonard Library offers many tools and resources to enhance your study of modern composers. I have a lot of links listed on my Music LibGuide that cover 20th and 21st Century music.

We subscribe to an audio based database called Music Online (SFSU ID and Library PIN required). If you search by time period, you will see the categories for 20th and 21st Centuries.

Leonard Library also has CDs that you can check out. Among the labels that service us with their new releases are New World Records and New Albion Records.

The library holds 207 recordings from New World Records. Here are a select few:

A sounding of sources [sound recording] / Malcolm Goldstein.

Music for strings [sound recording] / Robert Carl.

Ten exercises [sound recording] / Christian Wolff.

Nude rolling down an escalator [sound recording] : studies for Disklavier / Kyle Gann.

The Harry Partch collection [sound recording].

Creative orchestra music [sound recording] : Chicago 2001 / Scott Rosenberg.

In the white silence [sound recording] / John Luther Adams.

New World Records is dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Like the university press, New World preserves neglected treasures of the past and nurtures the creative future of American music.
New Albion Records searches for new musical territories. With composers and performers, they develop, record, and release about six titles a year.

Among the New Albion releases at the Leonard Library are these recommended CDs:

Nor’easter [sound recording] / Slow Six.

Lost style [sound recording] / Ge Gan-ru.

We sing for the future [sound recording] ; Thälmann variations / Cornelius Cardew.

Zilver [sound recording] : the California Ear Unit performs Louis Andriessen.

ENJOY!

There are many institutions that are in the process of digitizing their collections. It can be difficult to keep track of these new collections without someone indexing them and providing one main entryway for access.

CONTENTdm is one such way to easily access these digital collections.

You can do a search just for music materials, and when you do, you will find a plethora of archival material that may be useful to you in your research.

Here are a few of the highlights from the Music results:

Templeton Digital Sheet Music Collection (Mississippi State University)

Yvar Mikhashoff Photograph Collection (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The composers include Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Sylvano Bussotti, Henri Dutilleux, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, Frederic Rzewski, Luis de Pablo, Henry Brant, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Conlon Nancarrow, Nils Vigeland, and Poul Ruders.

Music Department Photograph Collection (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The Music Department Photograph Collection contains 638 photographs of musicians who have participated in events of the Music Deptartment dating back to ca. 1920.The list of composers in the collection is impressive. It includes: Earle Brown, Harrison Birtwistle, Pauline Oliveros, Colin Bright, Julius Eastman, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Cornelius Cardew, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Elliott Carter, David Del Tredici, Harold Shapero, Mauricio Kagel, Ralph Shapey, Ingolf Dahl, Henri Pousseur, Philip Glass, George Crumb, Fredric Myrow, Leon Kirchner, George Rochberg, Ned Rorem, Allen Sapp, Toru Takemitsu, Morton Subotnick, Leo Smit, and Augusta Read Thomas.

N. American New Music Festival Archive Photos (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The North American New Music Festival was founded in 1983 by Yvar Mikhashoff and Jan Williams, faculty members of the University at Buffalo Music Department and dedicated proponents of contemporary and avant-garde art music. Their aim was to produce, over a ten-day period, a concentrated series of concerts and related events at multiple Buffalo-area locations. These annual music festivals featured a wide range of modern musical styles composed and performed both by emerging creative musicians and by established composers of national and international reputation. The 173 images in the archive have been digitized to create this separate, online image collection. The original photographs include publicity stills submitted by participating musicians as well as photographs of musicians in rehearsal or performance. Notable composers represented in the collection include Milton Babbitt, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, La Monte Young, Netty Simons, Pauline Oliveros, and Frank Zappa.

Morton Feldman Photographs, 1939-1987 (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was best known for his association with the New York School of experimentalist musicians, including composers John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown, and pianist David Tudor. In addition to composing approximately 150 works, Feldman also wrote more than three dozen articles about various aspects of music and art. Feldman was a member of the music department faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1972-1987. During those years he served as Slee Professor of Music 1972-1973, Edgar Varèse Professor 1975-1987, and Director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, 1976-1980. He was also responsible for creating the June in Buffalo festival of contemporary music in 1975. The Morton Feldman Photographs, 1939-1987 are one component of the Morton Feldman Papers held by the Music Library. The online photograph collection consists of fifty four images, including snapshots and formal photographs. Other musicians pictured in the collection include John Cage, Barbara Monk Feldman, Nils Vigeland, Eberhard Blum, and the Kronos Quartet.

Concert Selections (IPFW Department of Music)
The Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Department of Music’s audio performances include selections from its student recitals, Faculty Artist Series, extensive Ensemble Series, and other concerts. The Ensemble Series includes the University Singers, Chamber Singers, Opera Ensemble, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, IPFW Community Orchestra, Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and a variety of Chamber ensembles.

Happy Exploring!

I recently returned from a trip to the Grand Tetons. Talk about inspirational scenery! I was singing the whole time.

Now I’m back and school is in full swing, with a lot less time to get things done due to the CSU Mandatory Furlough Program. The next furlough days are coming up this weekend, Fri 9/4, Monday 9/7 and Tuesday 9/8.

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you are an SFSU Student, Faculty or Staff affiliate as I am here to answer your music related research questions. Please refer to my Music Research Libguide to get started.

Thanks!

Laura

You may have heard about the severe budget crisis within the State of California that has affected the education budget throughout the state as well. Here in the CSU system, we are unable to serve the students, faculty and staff during the state mandated furlough periods. We are simply forbidden to do anything related to work. Tomorrow (Friday) August 14th we begin the first of our mandatory furlough days. That means the whole campus will be closed between August 14th and August 17th. Campus and all its services will reopen on Tuesday, August 18th.

Electronic materials within the library portals WILL be available remotely, however. Make sure you have your SFSU ID number and your Library PIN to be able to access electronic materials when away from campus. The library catalog and library website will also be available to help you with questions while we endure these furloughs.

Pianist Sarah Cahill plays and talks about the music of Frederic Rzewski, including his masterpiece 36 Variations on “The People United Will Never Be Defeated.”

YouTube can be a very useful academic research tool if you know where to go. Much like Google Scholar, YouTube University allows users to search within just the University “stations” where you can access scholarly material. Within the main YouTube University portal, there are many music related videos, like the one posted above from the University of California, Berkeley station.

LEONARD LIBRARY RESOURCES ON FREDERIC RZEWSKI

Here at the Leonard Library, we have other resources to help you learn more about Frederic Rzewski.

Rzewski plays Rzewski [sound recording] : piano works, 1975-1999.
Disc 1. North American ballads ; The Housewife’s lament — Disc 2. Mayn Yingele ; A Life ; Fougues — Disc 3. Fantasia ; Sonata — Disc 4. The Road, parts I & II — Disc. 5. The Road, parts III & IV — Disc 6. 36 variations on The People united will never be defeated = El Pueblo unido jamás será vencido / by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún — Disc 7. De profundis.

The people united will never be defeated! [sound recording] / Frederic Rzewski.
Variations on a Chilean revolutionary song, El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!, by Sergio Ortega.

Harvard composers : Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski / by Howard Pollack.
Two American classicists : Walter Piston and James Gould Cozzens — Songs without words : the orchestral miniatures of Leroy Anderson — Regional voices : John Vincent and Gail Kubik — Classicism pursued : Everett Helm and Ellis Kohs — New forms, new meanings : the music of Arthur Berger — Expanding the modernist tradition : Elliott Carter and Leonard Bernstein — Adventures in wonderland : Irving Fine and his music — A midcentury masterwork : Harold Shapero’s Symphony for classical orchestra — A heritage upheld : Daniel Pinkham — Favored sons : Robert Middleton and Allen Sapp — In Bartók’s wake : John Bavicchi, Nicholas Van Slyck, and Noël Lee — The center holding : Gordon Binkerd — A life in music : the symphonies of Samuel Adler — “Carter and the postwar composers” revisited : Billy Jim Layton, Yehudi Wyner, and Martin Boykan — Music with new perspectives : Robert Moevs, Karl Kohn, Claudio Spies, Peter Westergaard, and John MacIvor Perkins — Four women : Eugenia Frothingham, Victoria Glaser, Betsy Warren and Rosamond Brenner –
A new age and a new left : David Behrman and Frederic Rzewski — The elusive balance : John Harbison — Conclusion : Walter Piston and his students in widening contexts.

Lew moutons de panurge / Frederic Rzewski.
“For any number of musicians playing melody instruments plus any number of non-musicians playing anything.”

I usually produce a NEW BOOKS LIST on a monthly basis, however I don’t order quite as many CDs as I do books. Hence, the NEW CD LIST only comes out sporadically. Here is the list for the new CDs that are ready for you to check out over in HSS 127, Library Media Services. Enjoy!

Mississippi blues [sound recording] : rare cuts 1926-1941.

Memphis Minnie [sound recording].

Bessie Smith [sound recording]. Vol. 1.

OHM+ [sound recording] : the early gurus of electronic music, 1948-1980.

Jazz [sound recording] : [a history of America's music] / by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns.

Rzewski plays Rzewski [sound recording] : piano works, 1975-1999.

Sidney Bechet [sound recording] : classic sides 1931-1937.

The Complete Stax Volt singles, 1959-1968 [sound recording]

Love is the song we sing [sound recording] : San Francisco nuggets 1965-1970.

Mozart Edition, Complete Works

The deep spaces [sound recording] / Stephen Scott.

Sticky fingers [sound recording] / the Rolling Stones.

Folk images [sound recording] / Paul Lansky.

Avenue Q [sound recording] : the musical : original Broadway cast recording / [music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx ; book by Jeff Whitty].

Hairspray [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / music by Marc Shaiman ; lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman.

Bach Edition Complete Works

Nine [sound recording] : the musical : [original cast album] / music and lyrics, choral composition & musical continuity by Maury Yeston.

Etudes and parodies [sound recording] / Paul Lansky.

Big hits (high tide and green grass) [sound recording] / The Rolling Stones.

Let it bleed [sound recording] / the Rolling Stones.

Solo for voice 58 [sound recording] : 18 microtonal ragas / John Cage.

110 in the shade [sound recording] : the 2007 Broadway revival.

Musical perspectives [sound recording] / Sonic Youth, with William Winant [et al.]

Rent [sound recording] : original Broadway recording / [book, music and lyrics] by Jonathan Larson ; [original Broadway cast recording] produced by Arif Mardin ; co-produced by Steve Skinner.

Fog tropes [sound recording] ; Gradual requiem ; Gambuh I / Ingram Marshall.

The complete works for solo piano [sound recording] / Luciano Berio.

Zilver [sound recording] : the California Ear Unit performs Louis Andriessen.

The very best of Michael Nyman [sound recording] : film music 1980-2001.

Persian folklore [sound recording] / Reza Vali.

Nor’easter [sound recording] / Slow Six

Food for the bearded [sound recording] / Gyan Riley.

Rapunzel and other works [sound recording] / Lou Harrison.

The study of orchestration [sound recording] / [Samuel Adler and Peter Hesterman].

Momentum [sound recording] / Joshua Redman Elastic Band.

Gold sounds [sound recording] / James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal.

Lost style [sound recording] / Ge Gan-ru.

Rothko Chapel [sound recording] ; Why patterns? / Morton Feldman.

The key to songs ; Return [sound recording] / Morton Subotnick.

Jersey boys [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording.

Dirty rotten scoundrels [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / music and lyrics by David Yazbek ; [book by Jeffrey Lane ; based on the film Dirty rotten scoundrels ; orchestrations, Harold Wheeler].

Curtains [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / [music by John Kander ; lyrics by Fred Ebb ; book by Rupert Holmes ; original book and concept by Peter Stone ; additional lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes].

Wicked [sound recording] : a new musical : original Broadway cast recording / music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz ; book by Winnie Holzman ; orchestrations, William David Brohn.

Spring awakening [sound recording] : a new musical / [music by Duncan Sheik ; book & lyrics by Steven Sater ; based on the play by Frank Wedekind].

The color purple [sound recording] : a new musical : original Broadway cast recording / [music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray].

Funk carioca [sound recording] / mixed by Tetine.

San Francisco jazz, 1930-1932 [sound recording] : the Flexo recordings.

You may have heard that the State of California is in a severe budget crisis. Other states are also suffering, but it feels particularly bad here. If you are a CSU student, you must prepare yourself for what lies ahead. Starting in the Fall of 2009, all of the CSU campuses will face reductions. Reductions in classes, reductions in faculty, and reductions in services. Conversely, expect higher student fees and tuition.

FOLLOW THE CSU BUDGET CRISIS ON TWITTER

CSU Chancellor Charles Reed has produced a video to communicate the CSU plans in regards to this budget reduction. Watch it here.

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING!
CSU Anti-Cuts Protest July 21
There will be a “Save the CSU” protest rally at the Chancellor’s Office,
on July 21, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach
CA 90802.

Make a difference.
Call the Governor (213) 897 0322

You can call your local legislator and tell them that you are opposed the the tuition increase!
(213) 897 0322

Contact your local Legislators: flood them with letters, emails, phone calls, etc. to let them know how you feel about these increases.

BUDGET CENTRAL

Come fall semester, we will all have to be more patient and understanding as we try to serve the students of the CSU with less. Be especially kind to your librarians as we try to take on responsibilities unfamiliar to us. Have a question? Don’t hesitate to ask, but we may not know the answer. We will, however, try to obtain an answer for you, just not instantaneously. Thank you for your understanding.

Update from the CSU Chancellor’s Office:
Trustees to Finalize Plan on CSU Budget Deficit
Faced with a projected $584 million shortfall to its 2009-10 budget, the CSU Board of Trustees will meet July 21 to finalize plans to manage the budget deficit. The budget deficit is the result of the state’s reduced support to the CSU as lawmakers contend with closing California’s $26.3 billion budget gap.

At next week’s meeting, the trustees will vote on a proposed $672 fee increase for full-time undergraduate students as well as increases for part-time and graduate students. The trustees will also vote on a proposed $990 tuition increase for full-time non-resident students. In addition, the trustees will take action on proposed changes to state regulations that will allow the chancellor to furlough management and executive employees. These are a few of several measures the CSU is implementing as part of a comprehensive, balanced approach to solve the budget deficit which stems from a historic reduction in state support. Given the magnitude of the deficit—the largest in CSU’s history–no single solution is sufficient. The CSU’s plan includes a combination of employee compensation reductions focused on furloughs, student enrollment reductions, an increase in student fees, and additional cuts that will be implemented campus-by-campus. “These are not easy choices,” said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed. “We are asking everyone to make sacrifices so that we can continue to serve as many students as possible and to preserve as many jobs as possible under very difficult circumstances.”

Here is a look at the effects of the reduction in state funding on the CSU and the actions the CSU is taking to respond:
State Budget Impacts on CSU Students:
State general fund support of the CSU for 2009-10 is expected to be $1.6 billion, $500 million below the level of state support provided a decade ago. At the same time, the CSU is serving 100,000 more students than it did a decade ago. To preserve quality and access and to maintain the resources needed to serve students, the CSU has been forced to take the following actions:
Limited student enrollment this past fall.
Reducing its enrollment by 40,000 students in 2010-11.
Closed student enrollment for winter and spring 2010.
Proposing to raise full-time undergraduate student fees by $672 per academic year and non-resident tuition by $990 per academic year beginning fall 2009.

CSU’s Steps to Minimize the Impact on Students:
One-third of the proposed State University Fee increase will be set aside for financial aid.
This set-aside and increases in financial aid included in the federal stimulus package are expected to fully cover the fee increase for 187,000 of CSU’s 450,000 total students. CSU expects to receive an additional $81 million in Pell Grant awards for its neediest students. The CSU is the largest recipient of Pell awards in the country with more than 120,000 students receiving grants. Federal tax credits, increased work study and student loan improvements will also offset the fee increase for many students. The CSU is deferring State University Fee payments for the summer and fall 2009 term for CSU students who experience delays receiving Cal Grants from the California Student Aid Commission due to the state budget deficit.

State Budget Impacts on CSU Employees:
Employee salaries and benefits make up 85 percent of the CSU’s operating budget. To manage the deficit, the CSU is forced to reduce labor costs and has taken the following actions:
The CSU has implemented a salary freeze for executives and a hiring freeze for non-essential positions.
The CSU is proposing to furlough its 47,000 employees, including management and executives, two days a month with the exception of public safety personnel. This would reduce spending by about $275 million and preserve 22,000 course sections or 15 percent of classes for students for the academic year. The CSU is in the process of negotiating furloughs with several of its labor unions as their labor agreements do not include provisions for furloughs. To date, the California State Employees Union (CSUEU) has reached a tentative agreement.

CSU’s Steps to Minimize the Impact on CSU Employees:
The CSU is implementing a furlough option to save the maximum amount of jobs possible. In addition, furloughs are temporary and do not affect employment status, health benefit eligibility or retirement benefits. Furloughs reduce salary expenditures for the CSU while preserving jobs for employees and course sections and classes for students. The CSU is covering its payroll. CSU employees will continue to be paid as normal and will not be subject to the IOUs the state controller is currently issuing.

State Budget Impacts on the CSU’s Operations:
The state budget deficit has required the CSU to curtail construction projects and modify operations as follows:
More than 130 infrastructure projects on CSU campuses were suspended last December and restarted in April. There is still a suspension on lease revenue bond funded projects, including five that are CSU projects. The state budget has not provided funding for increased costs in energy, electricity and other operational necessities. The state budget has not provided funding for increased costs in employee health benefits which have risen by $8.4 million this year.

CSU’s Steps to Minimize the Impact on its Operations:
The CSU last fall implemented employee travel restrictions.
The CSU last fall canceled all non-critical equipment and supply purchases.
The CSU is covering the increases in costs for employee health benefits.