Members of the Council help promote public awareness and understanding of the Center and perform a representative function by linking it with relevant statewide publics including educational and civic organizations, private sector organizations, and local and statewide history societies. The Advisory Council is over time, asked to comment on the Center's performance and the quality of that performance. Members of the Advisory Council, when appropriate and not inconsistent with other professional roles, provide development assistance to the Center by offering suggestions and help with Center fundraising including provision of access to sources of extramural funds and related resources and sharing of fundraising experience in order to assure the financial vitality of the Center. The Advisory Council provides guidance and counsel to the president of the University and the Director of the Center about promising avenues of scholarship and policy options development related to the purposes of the Center. Members of the Advisory Council are appointed by the president of California State University, Sacramento.
Terms are three years.
The Director of the Center for California Studies, the Vice President for University Affairs, selected other individuals appointed by the president, and the President are ex-officio members of the Advisory Council. Formal actions of the Advisory Council are in the form of recommendations to the President of the University. University Policies Index CSUS Home Page.