Date: 06/27/2005

The California State University reports that the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a new earmark for a highly regarded CSU agricultural initiative, marking the latest in a series of positive developments coming out of its Office of Federal Relations in Washington D.C. HR 2744, the House agriculture appropriations bill for FY 2006, earmarks $550,000 in new funding for the CSU's Agricultural Research Initiative to conduct applied agricultural and environmental research. ARI, centered at the CSU's four agricultural colleges (Chico, Fresno, Pomona, and San Luis Obispo), is a top priority on the system's federal agenda for 2005. Building congressional support for CSU priorities like ARI is a top goal of the CSU's Office of Federal Relations, a three-person outpost of the Office of the Chancellor. See http://www.calstate.edu/CSULeader/2005/050623.htm.