Chancellor Charles B.Reed announced Thursday the allocation of the remaining $50.9 million in one-time federal stimulus funds for campuses to add courses for fall 2010.

Sacramento State’s share of the funds is $3 million, which will fund nearly 500 courses for fall 2010, according to a memo from the chancellor’s office.

Systemwide, the funds will add more than 8,000 courses for fall 2010.

“Hopefully, this will help to alleviate some of the shortages in classes, and students will be able to make faster progress toward their degree,”Reed said in a CSU press release.

In fall 2009, California State University received $76.5 in one-time federal stimulus funds, of which $25.6 million had been allocated to add courses for the winter and spring 2010 semesters. The chancellor’s office withheld the remaining $50.9 million to wait for the governor’s 2010-11 budget proposal, which was announced in January.

Kevin Wehr, president of the Sac State chapter of the California Faculty Association, said faculty members had sent messages to Reed, urging him to release the remaining stimulus funds.

“The CFA is going to pay very careful attention to make sure that the administration spends this money in the wisest way possible,”Wehr said. “It is our hope that this will include the rehiring of some of the hundreds of lecturers who have lost their jobs.”

For more information about the stimulus funds, read this Wednesday’s print edition of The State Hornet.

Kristine Guerra can be reached at [email protected].