The CSU currently governs at the federal level with the CDU and the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

The CSU currently governs with the FDP.

SJSU currently requires a minimum eligibility index of 2900-3200 using the SAT or 694-760 using the ACT depending on the selected major ( 3502 and 842 respectively for non-residents of California ), which is slightly above the CSU minimum of 2900 and 694 respectively.

It is currently the third largest library in the CSU system ( in terms of square footage ), and among the top ten largest in the CSU system based on the number of volumes.

CSU Bakersfield is currently a NCAA Division I school.

Neu-Ulm is currently controlled by the Christian Social Union ( CSU ).

Puts the currently governing coalition ( SPD + Green ) in the left and the Merkel-proposed coalition ( CDU / CSU + FDP ) in the right, with the PDS in the center showing that neither one has a majority.

The CSU has 45 seats in the Bundestag, making it the smallest of the six parties represented.

The CSU has led the Bavarian state government since it came into existence in 1946, save from 1950 to 1953 when the Bavaria Party formed a state government in coalition with the German Branches of the SPD and FDP.

No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

Since its formation, the CSU has been more conservative than the CDU.

It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

Enrollment first reached 7, 500 in 1974, and though it has increased to near 8, 000 in years since, the university remains one of the smallest in the CSU system.

CSU Long Beach's College of the Arts has more art and design majors than any other public university in America.

Their mutual party, the CSU, has dominated the Bavarian Landtag for nearly the entire post-war period.

With state financial support declining, CSU has also put a focus on alternate funding models based on market-based financial strategies and increased forms of private support.

Colorado State has converted the historic Fort Collins High School building into its University Center for the Arts In 2008 CSU also opened its University Center for the Arts, located in the old Fort Collins High School.

CSU purchased this historic building in 1995 and has since converted it into a new home for its programs in music, dance, theatre and the visual arts.

For over 40 years, CSU has also provided a well-regarded Distance MBA Program.

Another recent research project has taken CSU faculty to Mexico to study dengue fever.

Colorado State's new research Supercluster model brings together researchers across disciplines to work on topics of global concern in which CSU has a demonstrated expertise.

CSU has established Superclusters in Infectious Disease and Cancer Research and Treatment.

CSU has a well established research program in infectious disease.

CSU has won 9 MWC tournament championships and won or shared 11 regular season titles.

CSU also has a student-run campus television station and a student radio station, KCSU FM.

Though progress has been made, increasing minority enrollment at CSU has been a challenge for school administrators, one made yet more difficult by high dropout rates in many Colorado high schools with concentrated minority populations.

CSU has 169, 935 living alumni with 50 active alumni chapters ( 14 in Colorado and 37 out of state ) and 9 national interest groups.

CSU has four Faculties each offering a diverse range of courses and discipline opportunities:

The Environmental Learning Center, located three miles ( 5 km ) east of campus on the Poudre River, hosts many CSU research projects and educational programs.

It was the first of CSU ’ s three national titles ( 1992, 1995 ) during the decade.

Pre-season forecasts by the Colorado State University ( CSU ) called for 14 named storms and 7 hurricanes, of which three were expected to attain major hurricane status.

The Social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP had lost its majority after several Bundestag MPs ( like former FDP ministers Erich Mende and Heinz Starke or SPD partisan Herbert Hupka ) had left their party and become members of the CDU / CSU opposition to protest against Chancellor Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik, especially against the de facto recognition of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw.

The CDU / CSU ended up holding the Chancellory while the SPD took the majority of cabinet posts.

Even after the 2009 general election, the CDU / CSU emerged as the largest party in Germany, yet both lost votes predominantly to the FDP.

In Germany, for instance, coalition government is the norm, as it is rare for either the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CDU / CSU ) or the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) to win an unqualified majority in a national election.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

In Germany, the coalitions rarely consist of more than two parties ( where CDU and CSU, two non-competing parties which always form a single caucus, are in this regard considered a single party ).

In all federal election campaigns since the 1980s, the party sided with the CDU and CSU, the main conservative parties in Germany.

The party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Germany, along with the conservative CDU / CSU, and is led by Sigmar Gabriel.

The CDU / CSU managed to get the FDP to defect from its coalition with the SPD in 1982, and thus CDU leader Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of West Germany.

** Politics of Germany, Bundestag, List of political parties in Germany ( SPD, CDU / CSU, Greens, FDP, PDS )

The l, eader of the parliamentary group within CDU / CSU for expelled, relocated and German minorities, Klaus Brähmig, believes that research on Wolf children should be intensified: " The president gives an important sign of solidarity by meeting Wolf children, whose fate is not well known in Germany.

Recent election results mark it as the most conservative part of Germany, generally giving huge margins to the CSU.

An example of such a coalition being the one in existence between the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CDU / CSU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) set up after the 2009 federal elections.

The CDU / CSU had also reached a majority in the Federal Convention electing the President of Germany, and in 1979 the party nominated Carstens, though in contestation due to his Nazi past, as candidate, whereafter incumbent President Walter Scheel ( FDP ) chose to renounce a second term.

In post-war Germany, no serious attempt was made to recreate the party as a political force when conservative and centrist forces united into bigger parties like the CDU and the CSU, its Bavarian branch.

Today, there is no mainstream national conservative political party in Germany similar to the DNVP, as the CDU / CSU is more to the centre.

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

The euphoria following the reunification gave the ruling CDU / CSU – FDP coalition a dramatic advantage in both Western and Eastern Germany throughout the campaign.

He was a fund raiser for the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and Christian Social Union ( CSU ) in West Germany before and during Helmut Kohl's chancellorship.

* CDU / CSU, FDP and DP form coalition ( 208 seats, 51. 7 %) to elect Konrad Adenauer as the first Chancellor of Germany

* CDU / CSU and FDP form coalition ( 311 seats, 63. 9 %) to reelect Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of Germany

In West Germany, Brandt was heavily criticized by the conservative CDU / CSU opposition, who marked his policy as a betrayal of national interests.