Year In Review
The Associated Students is the primary advocate for students at California State University, Northridge and provides excellent, meaningful programs and services designed to create and enhance a spirited, learning-focused campus environment.
Meet our Departments
Associated Students provides many services to the CSUN campus. Our services include:
- Accounting
- Administration / Human Resources
- Children’s Center
- Outdoor Adventures
- Productions
- Sport Clubs
- Sustainability
- Student Leadership (Government)
- Ticket Office
- Marketing
- Information Technology
AS Annual Report 2023-2024
Administration / Human Resources
- Number of student employees: 151
- Number of staff: 48
- Number of volunteers: 51
- Number of student/ staff trainings: 154
- Training Courses: Completed in Vector Solutions
- Staff Transitions:
- The Executive Director announced retirement and a search was launched. An Interim Executive Director was appointed to start on 6/16/2024.
- Two managers left the business creating opportunities for hiring new managers in the departments. Both were filled with internal candidates who were promoted from their coordinator roles.
- Student Board of Directors transitioning out in May/June, new Student Board of Directors will be joining.
- New President will select the Executive Cabinet and present to the board for hiring for the 23/24 Academic Year.
Accounting and Finances
Associated Students (AS) Accounting and Financial Services provides many amenities to all CSUN students, especially when it comes to clubs and organizations. AS Accounting and Financial Services works with CSUN-recognized clubs and organizations by handling agency (club) accounts and AS-budgeted accounts when an allocation has been approved by the senate.
Children's Center
The AS Children’s Center is a high-quality early childhood development program that provides a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment. The program promotes each child’s physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. Daily activities foster each child’s development to their fullest potential.
Accredition
Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children
- Number of Families served: 238
- Number of children served: 240
- Number of teachers: 12
- Number of employees: 57
- Number of Student Employee: 42
- Number of meals served: 27, 363
GRANT & FUNDRAISING
California Department of Education/Early Education, California Department of Social Services , Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).Grant with the U.S. Department of Education's Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS).
Point of Pride
The Children's Center proudly celebrates 50 years of delivering high-quality early learning experiences, fostering school readiness the development of social- emotional, physical, cognitive and language skills.
AS Marketing
The Marketing Department is responsible for promoting the mission, vision, reputation and brand of Associated Students through media relations, publications, video production and Web communications.
Follow our social media links:
Instagram: @csunas
Facebook: @csunas
Tiktok: @csunas
Points of Pride
- CSUNAS Social Media Numbers:
- Instagram Followers - 15K+
- Instagram reach for the past year: 79,520
- Instagram Accounts engaged in the last 90 days - 7,990
- Instagram Accounts reached in the last 90 days - 67,975
- Facebook Page Followers - 15,484
- Facebook Page Reach for the last year - 10,323
- MIND Screen Requests - 308
- CSUN AS Productions:
- -Instagram Followers: 7,417
- -Facebook Followers: 1,286
- Reach for the past year:
- -Instagram: 28,895
- -Facebook: 185
- CSUN AS Sustainability:
- Instagram Followers: 2,634
- Instagram Followers: 2,634
- CSUN AS Leadership:
- Instagram Followers: 1,135
- Instagram Followers: 1,135
- CSUN AS Outdoor Adventures:
- -Instagram Followers: 4,420
- -Facebook Followers: 6,408
- Reach for the past year:
- -Instagram: 14,718
- -Facebook: 13,184
- CSUN Matador Bike Shop:
- -Instagram Followers: 257
- Reach for the past year:
- -Instagram: 34
- CSUN AS Sport Clubs:
- -Instagram Followers: 1,410
- -Facebook Followers: 1,912
- Reach for the past year:
- -Instagram: 4,704
- -Facebook: 2,113
AS Informations Technology
- Number of Students Served: 140 (AS student employees)
- Successfully physically relocated servers in the SQ Data Center within the allocated time frame with no damage or data loss.
- Successfully took down, stored, and reinstalled 53 workstations for office remodeling within the allocated time frame with no damage or equipment loss.
- Number of Staff Served: 42 (AS staff employees)
- Commencement Volunteer Hours: 62
- Number of Senate Meeting Live Streams: 29
- Number of AS Annual Budget Requests Processed: 150
- Number of IRA Annual Budget Requests Processed: 134
Outdoor Adventures
Since 2008, CSUN Outdoor Adventures (OA) has been providing unique recreational opportunities to the CSUN community. Through our Wilderness Outings, RIDGE Rockwall, rental center, team building program, workshops and clinics, Outdoor Leadership Program, and most recently Camp Matador, we provide awe-inspiring, transformative experiences to more than 6,000 students each year.
Number of students who attended Camp Matador: 95
Number of trips: 31
Number of trip leaders: 11
Number of students involved in Outdoor Leadership Program: 25
Number of leadership workshops requested/ presented: 16
Number of items rented: 889
Number of bikes repaired/ maintained: 137
Number of student employees: 40
Number of staff employees: 2
Number of volunteers: 87
Trip Leaders
All of our Wilderness Outing Instructors have over 10 days of back country training and an additional focus on technical activities to provide you with the safest, most competent wilderness experience possible. All our staff are an equal mix of trained medical practitioners, cooks, drivers, outdoor educators, and fun facilitators culminating in pretty incredible outdoor professionals.
Wilderness Welcome
Wilderness Welcome offers transfer students a warm entrance into the CSUN community and provides the tools to successfully navigate the transition into Matador life. Students will explore the beautiful outdoors of California and develop lasting relationships while on a fun-filled journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and lasting memories!
Adventure Trips
CSUN Outdoor Adventures, located in the Student Recreation Center, gives you the opportunity to explore, learn and enjoy outdoor opportunities. Students participating in outings will learn how to recreate safely in the great outdoors and develop an understanding of natural surroundings. Outdoor Adventures hopes this will lead each student to appreciate the Earth’s natural beauty and all it has to offer.
Leadership Workshops
The Outdoor Leadership Program (OLP) is designed to provide the knowledge and necessary skills for individuals who are interested in working as trip instructors or guides with the CSUN Outdoor Adventures Program.
The goal of the OLP is to develop knowledgeable, highly skilled and trained wilderness guides to work as instructors and guides with the Outdoor Adventures Program. Our overall mission is to provide the CSUN community an avenue to foster an appreciation for the outdoors, while emphasizing safety, environmental awareness, minimum impact, personal exploration, group bonding, experiential education, positive interaction, and good times.
Rental Center
CSUN Outdoor Adventures has a large selection of outdoor equipment available for current CSUN students to rent at a low cost for a day, a weekend, or a week. Located at the Northwest entrance of the SRC, the Rental Center serves as your comprehensive outdoor resource. Whether it's a family camping trip, church retreat, music festival, or mountaineering expedition, we provide top of the line outdoor equipment rentals for a number of general and technical activities.
Bike Shop
As a bicycle shop , we offer CSUN students, faculty, and staff affordable prices on bicycle repairs, maintenance, and parts. If you would like to learn how to repair or maintain your bike, no labor fee will be added to your total, so you'll just pay for the price of the part (if applicable). If you don't have the time or don't want to get your hands dirty, no problem
Points of Pride
Hosted the Western Regional Leadership Conference (WROLC). WROLC is a student led conference where universities from California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon come together to network, attend and lead sessions, and have learn new skills. We had Pattie Gonia, ac acclaimed environmentalist and drag queen, as our Keynote Speaker. We had 170 people in attendance.
Productions
AS Productions brings the Matador spirit to life! From concerts to farmers markets, lectures and movie nights, Productions aims to bring quality events to CSUN Students & the community. Productions provides students memorable and iconic opportunities to make the most of their college experience here at CSUN.
- Number of Events : 52
- Number of students who attended Events : 17,592
- Number of student Volunteers: 2 (Lets remove this stat)
- Number of student employees: 6 according to HR, 11 including Sustainability team #OneTeamOneDream
- Number/ list of collaborations with non-AS dept.: 23 Collaborations with Non-AS Departments
Points of Pride
- Sold out Big Lecture (featuring Danny Trejo)
- Sold out Big Comedy (featuring Wild’N Out’s JUSTINA VALENTINE & CONCEITED).
- Sold over 4100 tickets to Big Show (featuring Steve Aoki).
- Placed/moved over 2360 safety barricades over the course of the year for Farmers Markets and other events.
Sports Club
The Sport Clubs program provides CSUN students an opportunity to participate in regionally and nationally competitive sports and recreational activities. The program is designed to allow each CSUN student a chance to participate in a sport club individually or as a member of a team.
Number of Sport Clubs: 30
Number of Student Employees: 34 Student Employees, 21 Paid Coaches
Number of Volunteers: 23 Volunteer Coaches, 10 Guest Instructors/Coaches
Number of students in Sport Clubs (total): 745
Number of students attending Sports-a-palooza: 600
Points of Pride
- Boxing won a Belt (1st place) and a Medal at Nationals
- Women's Volleyball finished 2nd in the Southern California Collegiate Volleyball League
- Men's Volleyball was ranked 5th Nationally
- Archery
- Table Tennis won the UCI Table Tennis JV Open Teams Event
- Archery took home numerous medals in their various competitions (a few silver and a few bronze)
- Cheer got 2nd place at the United Spirit Association Championships
- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu won the team belt at the Matador Madness Grappling Tournament, and took home numerous medals
- Wrestling had three members attend nationals
- Chess finished 4th at the 2024 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship, finished 2nd at the Golden State Invitational
- Highest tryout turnout in program history (2100+) individuals tried out
- First time we have ever offered swim or golf in our history
- First time we have ever offered women's water polo
- Brought back our monthly recap news reports (The Brief) and our monthly "Did You Know?" Segments
Sustainability
AS Sustainability's main goal is to educate, support, & participate in various sustainability projects on CSUN's campus. Some of AS Sustainability events they host include: Earth Fair, Refill & Repairs, Virtual Trash Talker Series, Thursday Thrift, and other events.
Number of Student Employees:
- 5 according to HR
- 11 including Productions team
#OneTeamOneDream
Number of events (include list): 18
Hosted:
- Earth Fair: ~2500-3000 attendees
- C.R.A.M.P.S.: ~250 attendees
- Clean Air Day: ~200 attendees
- Spring Cleaning: ~250 attendees
- Refill & Repair (x6): ~600 attendees
- Thursday Thrift (x3): ~500 attendees
- America Recycles Day: ~200 attendees
- Sustainable Fashion Expo: ~50 attendees
Supported:
- CSUN BikeFest
- CSUN EV Car Show
- Spring Clean (w/ Housing)
- Swap & Shop (w/ Housing & CSUN Sustainability)
- Climate Justice Education Week (w/ The Institute of Sustainability)
Points of Pride
- Launched a new event called Thursday Thrift to help bring the reuse thrifting culture to the campus. Hosted this event 3 times over the Spring semester
- Hosted 6 Refill & Repair events (over the academic year) with over 87 gallons of soaps, shampoos, & conditioners for the campus to take advantage of.
- Created virtual trash talker video series to spread the word about being Sustainable in your daily life that received over 15,000 views in total.
- AS Sustainability collaborated with 18 off-campus vendors.
- AS Sustainability collaborated with 25 CSUN affiliated vendors, including: various AS Departments, the Institute of Sustainability, CSUN Facilities services, Physical Plant Management, Sustainability Club, and more.
Student Leadership
The Student Government division of Associated Students (AS) represents the student body, advocates its needs and defends its interests in dealings with faculty, campus administrators and government officials.
Student Government is comprised of student leaders who seek to provide the ultimate college experience and uphold the mission and vision of AS Student leaders encourage shared governance, student advocacy and collaboration with other campus and community entities.
Resolution Titles
- SB-2021-22-001 - AS Commitment to Diversifying CSUN Professors
- SB-2021-22-002 - Free Menstrual Products in CSUN Restrooms
- SB-2021-22-003 - Associated Students Fee Transparency Campaign
- SB-2021-22-004 - Eliminating Discrepencies & Attaching Syllabus to Online Course Description
- SB-2021-22-005 - Centralized Online Tutoring Information Website by College to Improve Resource Accessibility
- SB-2021-22-006 - Matador Discount Program
- SB-2021-22-007 - AS Support for the Country of Ukraine
- SB-2021-22-008 - Establish Religious Holiday Exemption Procedures
- SB-2021-22-009 - Continue Universal Free On-Campus Covid-19 Testing at CSUN
- SB-2021-22-010 - AS Establishment of Community Libraries in the University Village Apartments
- SB-2021-22-011 - AS Recommendation for Electric Bikes on Campus
- SB-2021-22-012 - Establishing and Creating a Veterans Memorial
- SB-2021-22-013 - Establish a Transfer Resource Center
- SB-2021-22-014 - To Include More Microwaves on Campus
- SB-2021-22-015 - Annual C.R.A.M.P.S. Event Hosted by AS Productions
Ticket Office
The AS Ticket Office offers ticketing services for nearly all campus events, from athletics and comedy to theater, music and more. Discounted tickets to local movie theaters and theme parks are also available.
Ticket Office Highlights
- Number 1 in Universal Halloween Horror Night online ticket sales for multiple consecutive years
- 4,101 Big Show ’24 tickets sold
- 750 Big Lecture Fall ‘23 tickets distributed [ Sold Out}
- Ticketed Events: Distributed 40,000 tickets to 242 student led events held at CSUN. These events included athletic games, theater performances, music performances, and other student organized events
- Transportation Subsidy Program: 2,154 total transportation passes were sold where 1,807 were U-Passes and 347 were MTA / AVTA passes.
- Theme Parks: Our data shows that 10,000 tickets were sold in-person and online.