Saturday, April 18, 2009

144 Summer 2009

Summer registration started this past Monday, so I decided I better get my class launched over the weekend. The main website is up, although I may make a few changes between now and the start of the summer term.

With the current global financial crisis--which is really an organizational crisis--there will much for everyone in the class to blog about. No one has been immune from the impact of the economic crunch. Certainly students, faculty, and staff at SJSU are facing the reality of the California budget cuts. What can we learn about organizations from what has happened? That will be the important take away.

~ Professor Cyborg

2 comments:

Rina Sutaria said...

Yeah I can really feel the impact of the economic crisis because last summer there were several online classes, and this summer, this class is the only one that I could take online! There weren't any other upper division online classes being offered in our major.

This tells me that even institutions as large as the California University system are not immune from the economic situation that we are facing! So sad because I have to pay so much money to take just one class!! Grr.

Professor Cyborg said...

SJSU has had to impose deep cuts in staffing and classes. In COMM, we're offering half the number of sections this summer that we offered last summer. Some departments canceled their summer classes entirely. Fall semester will have reduced sections as well. And SJSU turned away 4400 freshmen because we don't have the funding to pay the faculty to teach them.