Platform
We are fighting for an ASI that supports ALL students.
With a $23.5 million budget, ASI doesn’t need more money – we can solve many of CSUF’s most key issues with the funding we already have, if it’s spent properly.
Our Priorities
No more fee hikes! We need responsibility!
The current ASI leadership is proposing the “Student Wellness Initiative,” which will only make wellness on campus worse. We are already suffering under the CSU systemwide 34% tuition hike, which has already caused a 6% year-on-year enrollment decrease from students having to drop out. After years of high inflation, we can’t afford more in fees, and ASI wants to triple our fees, bypassing a student referendum to do so – but for what?
The new fees are supposedly to go toward student “wellness”, but they will do nothing of the sort. ASI claims to fund new programs, but these can only be run by the University administration – and should be run with our current exorbitant tuition payments. Most of the money will go into yet another SRC and TSU expansion, which may leave the existing one – renovated only 8 years ago – largely inoperable for years. The students who pay into the SWI will not reap the benefits.
ASI is absolutely right that we need to be doing more for students – and the money already exists. We need to restructure ASI’s budget, not put more burden on students who are already struggling financially. What good are these services if those who need them can’t even afford to come to CSUF?
We propose either shutting down the SWI entirely, or doing what should’ve been done in the first place – putting it up to a student referendum.
Bringing ASI to ALL Students
With over $500 of their own money going into ASI each year, every student should know what their student government is doing and be an active participant. Unfortunately, the most involved that students typically get with ASI is through either attending ASI events or having to go through the Finance Committee for event funding.
We want to deeply integrate the student body with ASI, ensuring that the actions of elected ASI representatives truly represent the needs and desires of the CSUF student body. Student leaders cannot do their jobs properly without knowing what students need, and we will work to connect with the student body constantly to fight for what they need.
We also want to focus on promoting transparency in ASI. In the aftermath of the firing of former Chief Communications Officer Alan Ruelas, the lack of transparency in ASI was brought to the forefront of students’ minds, and unfortunately nothing has improved throughout 2024. We will push for radical transparency in ASI, opening up and fulfilling public records obligations so that students understand everything going on in ASI.
Working with the CSUF administration for student needs
ASI is the strongest voice that students have to make the University administration make change. We will fight with the administration to help realize student needs and demands, including:
Improving the campus parking and transportation situations, including through installing cameras in the parking garages and establishing more campus shuttles
Eliminating the discriminatory “one advisor, one club” rule to give clubs more flexibility
Protecting EOP and other crucial student programs
Expanding campus medical services, including sexual health services and gender-affirming care
Shifting funding from the University Police Department towards CAPS and other crucial campus mental health and general wellness services
Instituting protection plans to push back against ICE deportations of students, staff, and community members