AUDIT CRITICIZES ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT CAL STATE FULLERTON.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as CSUF, CSU Fullerton, or Cal State Fullerton, is a part of the California State University system. The University is located in the city of Fullerton, California, in northern Orange County. , School of Engineering and Computer Science may need to pull the plug on its operations in a year because of poor curriculum, declining enrollment and monetary woes, a private audit said. The audit cited weak management and faculty infighting in·fight·ing n. 1. Contentious rivalry or disagreement among members of a group or organization: infighting on the President's staff. 2. Fighting or boxing at close range. as two sources of the school's decline. There are four departments, but the Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. Department was singled out and called a ``hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which of dysfunction.'' Students said classes need to be revamped and faculty needs to be more unified. The audit was conducted by Schaffer Associates of San Francisco. It was not publicly released, but The Orange County Register said Wednesday that it obtained a copy. A school official thought the report went too far. ``It's pretty brutal in places,'' said acting Dean David Falconer. ``I tend to be an optimist, though. I think it paints a bleaker picture than what I see in the school.'' Mary Kay Tetrault, vice president of academic affairs, said the university is addressing the problems. |
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