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“We have some first-year students and trans- fer students whose classes were canceled after the preregistration period, so now they can’t get into anything.” Gwen Urey, president, CFA at Cal Poly Pomona now the math and physics classes I need are not available and I’m always on a waiting list. I’ve wasted an entire year without being able to move forward.” Students are distressed throughout the campus, says Gwen Urey, president of the California Faculty Association chapter at Pomona. “Many classes were canceled because of cutbacks, so stu- dents have to wait. We have some first- year students and transfer students whose classes were canceled after the preregi s trat ion period, so now they can’t get into anything. They can’t get 12 units; they can’t get fi- nancial aid; and t he y c an’ t g e t health care bene- fits if they aren’t enrol led in 12 uni t s . Some of them are feeling Dián Hasson CTA Board member desperate and looking for any units to take — even if it won’t help them pro- ceed toward graduat ion. And some can’t even get that.” With 50 or more students on a wait- ing list, some CFA members fill their classrooms with as many students as the fire code permits. More students mean more work, but instructors have been told to take furlough days, so there’s less time. Most of the teaching positions that were cut were part-tim- ers or “lecturers” without permanent status, so the administration claims Cal Poly Pomona student Shelley Bruce, a double major in fine arts and gender ethnic multicultural studies, discusses how both programs may be eliminated. MARCH 2010 | www.cta.org 19