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FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008-2009

Full Financial Statement from CPA (requires adobe acrobat)

Fresno Free College Foundation Annual Report

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FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

Fresno Free College Foundation is a community-based membership organization
dedicated to the principles that the well-being of the community is measured
by the respect that it shows for the civil liberties, intellectual and
artistic freedom of its citizens, and that the exercise of this freedom
enriches the individual and society as a whole.

AGENDA  for 1/19/10

544 W Olive Avenue 7 PM

 

Call to Order 7PM                 Determination of Quorum and Welcome New
Board Members                     Introduction of Guests

 

I.            Adoption of Agenda

II.         Excuse of Absences

III.            Approval of Minutes

IV.        Public Comment

V.            President's Report

VI.            Executive Director/Programming Director's Report

VII.       Chief Engineer's Report

 

VIII.            Regular Reports

            A.            Budget Committee

            B.            Community Outreach Committee

            C.            Fundraising Committee

            D.            Governance Committee

            E.            Programming Committee

            F.            Personnel Committee (closed session)

            G.            Election Committee

            H.            KFCF Representative to KPFA LSB

           

IX.            Consent Agenda - none at time of agenda preparation

           

X.         Old Business

            a.            Board budget retreat: subjects to be covered and
details (time, food)

            b.            job descriptions for staff

            c.            Free Speech Media Conference 2/20/10

            d.            updating web site

            e.            other old business

 

XI.        New Business

a.             Officers and Committee assignments

b.            Report on supporter's offer of donation

c.            Other new business

d.            Closed session on personnel matters

 


FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ANNUAL ELECTIONS

 
Election Results as tabulated by our CPA's Office on 12/10/2009.

There was a quorum of ballots received.

Elected to FFCF Board:

Rick Flores  191
Vickie Fouts 170
Mark Hernandez 143

Runner Ups:

Eduardo Stanley 125
Gena Kirby 52

Al three bylaw amendments were approved.


 

 

 


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DR PAUL DALE BUSH

Receives the 2009 Veblen-Commons Award

 

            On January 3, 2009, Dale Bush received the annual Veblen-Commons Award

in San Francisco during the annual meetings of the Allied Social Sciences

Association (ASSA). All of the major professional economics associations are

members of the ASSA. The Award is sponsored by the Association for Evolutionary

Economics and is given to a scholar in recognition of  his/her contributions to the field

of evolutionary institutional economics. This prestigious award is named after two of the

early American pioneers of institutional economics, Thorstein B. Veblen and John R.

Commons. Past recipients of the Award have been such luminaries as Gunnar Myrdal

(Nobel Laureate in Economics), John Kenneth Galbraith, Rexford G. Tugwell

(a former member of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “brain trust”), Robert Heilbroner,

and Marc R. Tool (internationally renowned institutional economist and long-time

editor of the Journal of Economic Issues), among others.

 

            Dr. Janice Peterson, a member of the economics faculty at California State

University, Fresno, and one of Bush’s former students, introduced him at the awards

ceremony. After commenting on Bush’s many contributions to the field of institutional

economics, she ended with praise of him as professor, teacher and mentor.

 

            “We students were cautioned about accepting a particular set of theories as

             reality without careful consideration of the philosophical preconceptions

            and framework within which the different microeconomic worldviews could

            be identified and analyzed. This framework not only provided the opportunity

            for a historical and critical analysis of the economic models, but also made

            them fascinating to study. Instead of merely being abstract mathematical pro-

            lems, microeconomic models became key players in an intellectual contest

            over the meaning of reality.”

 

            At the outset of his teaching career, Dale Bush’s professional work as a scholar
was delayed by several years during which he was immersed  in the academic freedom
wars of the California State University (CSU) system during the late 1960s
and early 1970s. He earned an odious reputation in the eyes of the university
administration for his advocacy of the rights to academic freedom and due process
of CSU students and faculty. When he was not in the classroom, his time was spent
 in grievance and disciplinary action hearings throughout the state in which he represented
 faculty and students whom the administration had charged with engaging in actions 
and public utterances  offensive to the powers that be. In the late 1960s he served
as the president of the Association of California State College Professors (ACSCP),
a position that brought him to the disapproving attention of the Reagan administration
 in Sacramento. In that capacity Bush publicly attacked Reagan’s destructive budgets
  for higher education  and criticized State College president, S. I. Hayakawa’s introduction
 of a police state at San Francisco State College. Amidst these outrages, Bush was a
leader in bringing collective bargaining to higher education in the State of California.

 

        In 1968, Dale Bush and four other professors at the Fresno campus
established the Fresno Free College Foundation in order to support the poet
Robert Mezey who was fired by the Fresno State College administration without
 cause. Since the Mezey case, the Fresno Free College Foundation has sought to
 protect other professors and students from administrative tyrannies and to
 serve as an instrument for highlighting the need for the protection of
academic freedom and due process on university campuses.

 

                                                                                                                                                            Alex Vavoulis

 


 

The  Fresno Free College Foundation

40th Anniversary Annual Report....

 

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Committee meeting times

Regular Board Meeting 

3rd Tuesday at 7:00 PM 

Machinists Union Hall on W Olive

The Fresno Free College Foundation will meet at  7 PM December 15, 2009  IAM Union Hall 544 W Olive Ave Fresno, CA.  The meeting is open to the public.

 

FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

Fresno Free College Foundation is a community-based membership organization dedicated to the principles that the well-being of the community is measured by the respect that it shows for the civil liberties, intellectual and artistic freedom of its citizens, and that the exercise of this freedom enriches the individual and society as a whole.

AGENDA   for 12/15/09

 

Call to Order 7PM             Determination of Quorum       Introduction of Guests

 

I.    Adoption of Agenda

II.   Excuse of Absences

III.  Approval of Minutes

IV.   Public Comment

V.    President's Report

VI.   Executive Director/Programming Director's Report

VII.  Chief Engineer's Report

 

VIII. Regular Reports

      A.    Budget Committee                   

      B.    Community Outreach Committee

      C.    Fundraising Committee 

      D.    Governance Committee

      E.    Programming Committee                    

      F.    Personnel Committee (closed session)

      G.    Election Committee

      H.    KFCF Representative to KPFA LSB

      I.          Ad hoc committee on criteria for membership of honorary board

IX.   Consent Agenda - none at time of agenda preparation

     

X.    Old Business

      a.    Board budget retreat/consultant

      b.    job descriptions for staff

      c.    election

      d.    updating web site

      e.    other old business

 

XI.   New Business

a.    Regular ED Evaluation Process and form

b.    Free Speech Media Conference: KFCF sponsorship and participation 

c.    Open Board position

d.    Other new business

e.    Closed session on personnel matters

     

 

 

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