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SS-S07-3

 

At its meeting of March 19, 2007, the Academic Senate passed the following Sense of the Senate Resolution presented by Senator Buzanski from the floor of the Senate.

 

 

Sense of the Senate Resolution

Opposing Proposed Name Change

 

           

Whereas        a proposal has been made that the name of this university be changed to California State University, San                      José, and

 

Whereas        such a change was made more than 30 years ago and, in response to the urging of campus and community,                     promptly repudiated, and

 

Whereas        San José State University as the oldest of the CSU campuses, has established a unique identity, and

 

Whereas        a merging of that identity into the faceless CSU will deprive the campus          and community of a venerable link                     with its history, and

 

Whereas        other links, with alumni, with other institutions of higher learning, with employers and with present and                            potential funding sources will be confused and may be impaired, and

 

Whereas        President Kassing and many others, including Academic Vice President Emeritus Hobert Burns and the                                    Board of Directors of the Emeritus Faculty Association, have already expressed their opposition to any such                  change, now, therefore, be it

 

RESOLVED

 

                        That the Academic Senate of San José State University finds and declares that the proposed change of                               name is not in the best interests of the university and goes on record in opposition to it.