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The Difficulty of Funding CSUSB’s Airwaves
Jacqueline Flores Staff Reporter In August of 2011, CSUSB announced they would be joining a new program that allowed students, from all over San Bernardino County, to ride the Omnitrans Buses for free. The program known as GoSmart was a big hit with other involved colleges such as Chaffee Valley College and San Bernardino Valley College. This program was meant to be a start for greener ways of traveling. Mass transit reported that one student taking the free buses instead of driving eliminates up to twenty pounds of carbon emission. Two years later the Office of Institutional Research conducted a survey with 1,488 students and concluded that 76.5% of these students were commuters. Of course, much time has passed since this last documented survey, and we can only assume with the rise of tuition and on-campus living costs, that many more students have stuck with commuting. CSUSB is a diverse campus filled with life from other counties, states, and even countries. It could come as a shock to many that while CSUSB has these commuters, their buses still only cater to San Bernardino County students. They recently
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extended their contract with Omnitrans and added an express bus from Loma Linda that drives straight to the campus, with no stops and no transfers. The question is asked: What about the students outside of San Bernardino County? Riverside County is the second highest county, after San Bernardino County, in student population. According to an infographic created by the Office of Institutional Research, 14% of transfer students came from Riverside Community College and 12% from College of the
Desert, both considered as top feeder schools in 2017 and both in Riverside County. But wanting to take the bus from Riverside or any cities part of its county, is not convenient in any way, oftentimes taking up to three hours. Many would, or do, take up to 4 different buses just to get to campus. For cities like Hemet and Moreno Valley, students would have to drive to other cities near them such as Beaumont (it hosts the commuterlink 10) and Riverside, as those are the ones with connecting buses to San Bernardino.
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Funding for both Coyote Radio and Paws Radio at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), has been a critical issue that has been ignored throughout the last few years. Both campuses in San Bernardino and Palm Desert have had their problems with securing funding for their radio stations in the past. The San Bernardino campus has had problems with funding because the funds have been allocated to different programs throughout the years, while the Palm Desert Campus lacks enough space to provide resources for its students and faculty.
Although funding has been adequate for both Paws Radio in Palm Desert and Coyote Radio in San Bernardino, there needs to be more efforts to provide the radio stations with more funds and resources. What has made matters worse is that since the COVID-19 pandemic, funding to the radio stations has been reallocated to different programs on both campuses. The radio
stations’ funding is viewed as a last priority. Although funding has been allocated to different programs on both campuses, efforts to reverse this trend and increase funding to both radio stations will require additional time and effort. Funding for Coyote Radio at the San Bernardino campus has been adequate, but there must be efforts to provide the students with a great learning experience. I spoke to Kelli Cluque, the General Manager of Coyote Radio station for the San Bernardino campus. Kelli Cluque mentioned that the radio station is funded by allotments from CSUSB and Academic Affairs. She stated that the California State University (CSU) system funds all radio stations for the 23 universities
in the CSU system and has felt there has not been a decrease in funding. She said that although there has been no decrease in funding to Coyote Radio, additional funding is always nice to provide students with the best learning experience.
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