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Campus concerns for staff and students

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By Michael Isberto |Features Editor|

CSUSB’s plans for renovation this summer have caught the attention of students and faculty alike.

 
Plans to build a new parking lot, renovation of the Pfau Library, and the expansion of the Santos Manuel Student Union (SMSU) are welcomed by many at CSUSB.

 
With these plans they are also looking for specific additional changes that most consider should be standard.

 
Many students and faculty believe that beautification and superficial changes to the campus are dispensable, but the idea of safety and security is essential.

 
“A university should put the safety and security of its students, staff and faculty, first,” said professor Brandon Johns.

 
“To that end, it’s important to add locks to classroom doors and increase lighting around campus; indeed, it’s considerably more important than making any cosmetic adjustments,” added Johns.

 
Professors and students appreciate the plans to make the campus more attractive, but they feel other aspects of the school should be priority.

 
“The beautification seems a little extraneous for me,” said student Acacia Weber.

 
“I guess it’s cool that they’re doing this stuff for the 50th anniversary, but it seems like we have other things that need to be taken care of first,” continued Weber.

 
Safety is the main concern for most on campus particularly in poor lighting.

 
“I’ve had many classes that end in the evening,” stated Johns.

 
“When I exit UH, the campus is extremely dark. We are in desperate need of better and more lighting across campus. Better lighting would discourage potential predators. […] Throughout the years, numerous students have expressed to me concern about the lack of lighting on campus. They’re right to be concerned. In all my years, I’ve never experienced a campus darker than ours.”

 
Professors have also complained about the lack of locks on the doors of certain classrooms, stating that locked doors can save many lives in an emergency.

 
“That this is so is puzzling,” stated Johns.

 
“If an active shooter, or otherwise disturbed individual, were to enter UH, he or she would be able to walk into many classrooms without any resistance. Having locks on our doors could save lives,” stated Johns.

 
Some students are content with the way the campus is currently, and would rather see changes in food options. They would rather have tastier, healthier and more affordable food available on campus. The plans for the new dining hall should take care of this demand.

 
Other changes students would like to see on campus is faster Wi-Fi connecting.

 
“The Wi-Fi should be strong enough to handle everyone on campus at once,” said student Abel Salgado.
“It should be upgraded. In all honesty, as a school it should be able to handle all that information. It is crashing all the time or it just cancels out. That’s a problem the school needs to fix,” added Salgado.

 
Upgrades to the CSUSB campus are welcomed with open arms by faculty and students alike.

 
They also believe that there are other more important things that should be on the table as well. According to students, a thing like campus safety is crucial.

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  45. Our campus already has some pretty disturbed people lurking about. WE can all be thankful that Sandra Vasquez, our ethics compliance officer under Student Affairs VP, Bryan Haynes, departed 8 April. Vasquez endangered all of us through criminal antics after I reported an ongoing fraud in a master's program at CSU San Bernadino. Vasquez & Haynes, turned the executive orders on their head. President Morales, stood in the shadows giving them directives. Campus lights will not protect any student who attempts to engage campus officials in felonious conduct.

    WASC just accredidated CSUSB and in doing so, are concealing criminal acts that have been well documented. This fraudulent accredidation effects all students. Below is a letter I am drafting asking WASC to release documents of the fraud allegations. WASC is operated through CSU.

    Cal Poly’s president, Jeffrey D. Armstrong, says the most important person on the campus is the student. President Armstrong, concurrently serves on the non profit public benefit corporation as a board director of the Western Association of Schools Accreditation (WASC Senior) titled a Senior Commissioner, thus acting as the employer of WASC staff with two other CSU presidents (Fullerton & Northridge). WASC is tasked with the accreditation of the CSU campuses and conducting investigations on compliance issues.

    Senior Commissioner, Armstrong, and WASC Senior are now refusing to release public information to include the board’s minutes, identifying who the paid commissioner’s are and information on a year long investigation of allegations of an academic and financial fraud within my master’s program at CSUSB. WASC has written that their entire funding is private though their members include all CSU & UC campuses, and that sunshine laws don’t apply. WASC Senior operates under the US Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). I reported to WASC that my receipt of federal education dollars was fraudulently obtained as CSUSB violated established accreditation standards and then used unlawful tactics like a suspension, expulsion attempt, threats, witness tampering and hearing transcript editing to place CSU executive policies on their head and retaliate for reporting the fraud allegations.

    This ongoing academic and financial scheme at CSUSB had become unbearable by January 2013. Their online hybrid program was comprised of 80% Korean students. Korean’s holding a bachelor's in their native language, were now undertaking master’s level work in English. Recognized and honored international English academic admission standards (exp. IELTS) for foreign students were bypassed. Korean students were blameless for participating in the pay for diploma scheme, right? I mean, American’s writing their academic papers was OK, because President Armstrong’s message states students are the most important person. The chancellor’s office is concealing a 2015, California DOJ investigation that’s connected to the information WASC is withholding.

    CSU president, Jeffrey D. Armstrong, should assure that WASC operates with full transparency and then step down. CSU must divest itself from WASC and all CSU staff should be banned from holding positions on a California non profit that is incorporated to serve the public good as an overseer of the CSU system. WASC needs an iron clad whistleblower policy as described under the Sarbanes Oxley Act. University of California staff should also stop their dual positions as Senior Commissioners. WASC should be required to release information requested because that information is now concealing the academic fraud allegations. CSU San Bernadino should be stripped of its recent WASC accreditation and required to undergo an authentic accreditation process. The CSU appointees and/or employees who obstructed the investigation should step down

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  46. Our campus already has some pretty disturbed people lurking about. WE can all be thankful that Sandra Vasquez, our ethics compliance officer under Student Affairs VP, Bryan Haynes. Vasquez endangered all of us through criminal antics after I reported an ongoing fraud in a master's program at CSU San Bernadino. Vasquez & Haynes, turned the executive orders on their head. President Morales, stood in the shadows giving them directives. Campus lights will not protect any student who attempts to engage campus officials in felonious conduct.

    WASC just accredidated CSUSB and in doing so, are concealing criminal acts that have been well documented. This fraudulent accredidation effects all students. Below is a letter I am drafting asking WASC to release documents of the fraud allegations. WASC is operated through CSU.

    Cal Poly’s president, Jeffrey D. Armstrong, says the most important person on the campus is the student. President Armstrong, concurrently serves on the non profit public benefit corporation as a board director of the Western Association of Schools Accreditation (WASC Senior) titled a Senior Commissioner, thus acting as the employer of WASC staff with two other CSU presidents (Fullerton & Northridge). WASC is tasked with the accreditation of the CSU campuses and conducting investigations on compliance issues.

    Senior Commissioner, Armstrong, and WASC Senior are now refusing to release public information to include the board’s minutes, identifying who the paid commissioner’s are and information on a year long investigation of allegations of an academic and financial fraud within my master’s program at CSUSB. WASC has written that their entire funding is private though their members include all CSU & UC campuses, and that sunshine laws don’t apply. WASC Senior operates under the US Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). I reported to WASC that my receipt of federal education dollars was fraudulently obtained as CSUSB violated established accreditation standards and then used unlawful tactics like a suspension, expulsion attempt, threats, witness tampering and hearing transcript editing to place CSU executive policies on their head and retaliate for reporting the fraud allegations.

    This ongoing academic and financial scheme at CSUSB had become unbearable by January 2013. Their online hybrid program was comprised of 80% Korean students. Korean’s holding a bachelor's in their native language, were now undertaking master’s level work in English. Recognized and honored international English academic admission standards (exp. IELTS) for foreign students were bypassed. Korean students were blameless for participating in the pay for diploma scheme, right? I mean, American’s writing their academic papers was OK, because President Armstrong’s message states students are the most important person. The chancellor’s office is concealing a 2015, California DOJ investigation that’s connected to the information WASC is withholding.

    CSU president, Jeffrey D. Armstrong, should assure that WASC operates with full transparency and then step down. CSU must divest itself from WASC and all CSU staff should be banned from holding positions on a California non profit that is incorporated to serve the public good as an overseer of the CSU system. WASC needs an iron clad whistleblower policy as described under the Sarbanes Oxley Act. University of California staff should also stop their dual positions as Senior Commissioners. WASC should be required to release information requested because that information is now concealing the academic fraud allegations. CSU San Bernadino should be stripped of its recent WASC accreditation and required to undergo an authentic accreditation process. The CSU appointees and/or employees who obstructed the investigation should step down.

    Reply

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