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<br>Education Consortium of San Diego County<br>For Immediate Release <br>December 17, 2009<br><br>Contact: Leo Carrillo, Education Consortium<br>Phone: (619) 756-4303<br>Email: equalitysandiego@gmail.com<br><br>SDSU Delivers Empty Christmas Present with Incomplete Records Disclosure<br>ACLU sends demand letter on behalf of the Education Consortium for full disclosure<br><br>San
Diego, CA – In an effort to better understand who SDSU consulted with
prior to eliminating the local admissions guarantee, the Education
Consortium submitted a public records act request in October. What they
got back was over 2,000 pages that failed to include significant
documents encompassed in the request. <br><br>Chief among the missing
documents are records of an enrollment management plan and any
consultation with the CSU Chancellor’s Office or SDSU’s Enrollment
Management Advisory Council (EMAC) prior to eliminating the local
guarantee. “The only mention of the local guarantee that we see in the
records occurs after President Weber announced he was eliminating it on
September 21, 2009,” stated Leo Carrillo, the lead organizer for the
Education Consortium. “It’s hard to believe there was no plan and no
consultation, and even harder to believe there are no records of them.”<br><br>“CSU
policy requires the university to form a long-range plan that, among
other things, addresses service to the local area. It also requires the
university to consult with both the Chancellor’s Office and with EMAC
before it changes the admissions rules abruptly. Otherwise, SDSU must
give the public 12 months notice,” said Dr. Isidro Ortiz, who was
instrumental in negotiating the 2002 CSU policy and served on the EMAC
for several years. Now Vice Chair of the Education Consortium, Dr.
Ortiz added, “We, like the San Diego school board and many others
throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties, are very concerned that
SDSU changed the rules of the game without consulting the appropriate
people and without giving high school seniors adequate time to
prepare.” <br><br>Because SDSU appears to have unlawfully withheld
documents, the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties has sent a
demand letter asking for the full disclosure of documents. “Access to
information is a fundamental right,” stated David Blair-Loy, the legal
director for the ACLU. “It is especially important on an issue such as
the elimination of the local guarantee, which has a significant impact
on the community.”<br></div></div><br><br><font size="3"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jose Madera </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Chair</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán </span><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">mechasdsu@gmail.com</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">www.mechasdsu.org</span><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are all activist but it is when we act together do we become revolutionaries"</span></font><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left:
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